Anna Ferris @aferris.bsky.social PhD Candidate University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice | immigration, refugees, citizenship, and inequality
Dalia's mom
Danielle Summer @daniellesummer.bsky.social Freelance Foreign Correspondent with a focus on women’s rights and foreign affairs.
James Worrall @jamesworrall.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Relations and Middle East Studies @ the University of Leeds. Specialist in the Gulf and Levant, Conflict, Order, Global Governance etc.
Co-Editor Civil Wars
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/112/dr-james-worrall
Dr. Deanna Giraldi, MPH @deannagiraldi.bsky.social Postdoc @ Yale | @DSPI_Oxford PhD 📚| Health Policy MPH @YaleSPH 🩺 | survivorship x gun violence x qualitative researcher | opinions are my own 🌱
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
Martin Jay @martinrjay.bsky.social Owner of maghrebi.org, ex award winning journalist with big media, loves dogs, lives on the edge of the sahara. Fired by CNN for being a good journalist. The truth really is easier to remember.
I'm not an 'impersonator' as BSK has labelled me ffs
@thomaspierret.bsky.social @thomaspierret.bsky.social 
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Birgit Monteiro @birgitmonteiro.bsky.social Vaters Tochter. Demokratin, Historikerin, Germanistin, Vorständin einer Stiftung. Leserin, Reisende. Hier privat. Neugierig auf die Welt und die Menschen.
Rebekka Rexhausen @macbexx.bsky.social Interested in #Syria, the #MiddleEast, #ForeignPolicy toward the region, and #sanctions | Assistant Director & Fellow, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG)
Lea Müller-Funk @leamullerfunk.bsky.social Assistant professor @demigkrems.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
Jenne Jan Holtland @jjholtland.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf.
Villages over cities. Blueskies in Dutch.
Author "De Koerier van Maputo" (2021): https://tinyurl.com/3v7ekrah
Arab Reform Initiative @arabreforminit.bsky.social A Hub for Independent Thought.
Producing knowledge geared towards achieving democratic change in the Arab Region.
مؤسسة بحثية وملتقى الفكر الحر في المنطقة العربية
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Jacob Eriksson @drjeriksson.bsky.social Lecturer in Post-war Recovery Studies, Dept of Politics & IR, Uni of York @uoypolitics.bsky.social Heavily Anglicised Swede. RTs = hmm, interesting
Petra Stienen @petrastienen.bsky.social Mosaic life
of writing, international relations, politics, coaching, moderating
human rights & social justice - inclusion & gender
Limburg - Nederland - Middle East
Posts in Nederlands - English
- اللغة العربية
Former senator - former diplomat
Roberta Maggi @robertamaggi.bsky.social Development practitioner focusing 🔎 on security sector reform & governance, mostly #Libya #MENA | Associate Fellow, CARPO | @warstudieskcl.bsky.social & @gvagrad.bsky.social alumna | Own 💭 & usual caveats apply
Rena Netjes @renanetjes.bsky.social Arabist. Journalist. Entrepreneur.
With 20 field trips to Syria since 2019, I bring perspectives grounded in firsthand experience and authentic local engagement.
@RenaLingua.
renanetjes@protonmail.com
Allison West @allisonrwest.bsky.social Senior Legal Advisor @ecchr.bsky.social | Int'l law & human rights politics & praxis, detention & NAWA (MENA), freedom dreams
@elisemadeline13.bsky.social @elisemadeline13.bsky.social Journalisting, knitting and sewing in Lebanon🐌 Eyes on environment, rural life, offbeat 📝 My recent reporting: https://madelineedwardsjournalist.com/clips
Deborah Benedict @skywisecrone.bsky.social American🇺🇸 Finn living temporarily in Finland🇫🇮, dog momma🐕🐶, meditator🧘♀️, astrologer🪐, herbal concoctor🪴, wannabe farmer 👩🌾, believer in magic🪄, humanitarian💓, former government exec, attorney, and supporter of all peoples and souls in all forms.🗻🌲🪲🪨
Sabaheta Ramčilović-Suominen @sabaheta.bsky.social Research professor @Luke.fi
Political ecology, decoloniality, degrowth, sust. transformations. Docent in Env. Justice @uniuef.bsky.social
https://justglobeproject.com/
https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=iusOsZcAAAAJ&hl=en
Julien Barnes-Dacey @jbdacey.bsky.social MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Emadeddin Badi @emadbadi.bsky.social Eyes on #Libya, MENA geopolitics & security.
Natacha Danon @natachadanon.bsky.social Damascus-based journalist telling Syrian stories with eyes on Palestine | Bylines in Syria Direct, New Lines Magazine, Middle East Eye & The New Arab
Abdelrahman Ayyash عبدالرحمن عياش @3yyash.bsky.social Journalist, Translator, and Researcher - Working on Islamic movements, Democracy, and Human Rights in the Middle East. 3yyash@proton[.]me
RafifJ @rafifj.bsky.social American by birth, Syrian by blood, activist by nature. Shouting from the rooftop: FREE SYRIA. VP, Syrian Liberal Party; board president, Baytna and Nonviolence International. #Resist
Julia Reiter @juliareiter.bsky.social Senior Scientist / Post Doc @univienna
Social & Economic Psych Group / Health in Society hub
political psych, intergroup conflict, radicalization, social identity, protest, collective action, policing
Member of @polpsynetde.bsky.social organizing team
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
@danspiun.bsky.social @danspiun.bsky.social Documenting battles/units in Ukraine; Tracking vehicle losses for Oryx list + WarsSpotting, emphasis on vehicle ID/geo-location. Previously also Syria + Nagorno-Karabakh.
On Twitter, aim to move more here
Not an OSINT account - this just my obsessive hobby
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social All things energy transition, climate justice and safe streets in the EU.
Formerly at Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and Global Witness. Now working at @beyondfossilfuels.
Irish immigrant in Brussels.
Syria Notes @syrianotes.org Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability.
Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/
YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
Dr Tom Hill @tomhjhill.bsky.social Doctor of Wars. Former special assistant to Kofi Annan. Founder, the Center for Peace Diplomacy (CPD). Former prof at SIPA Columbia. Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, KCL.
James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
MirandaWMeyer @mirandawmeyer.bsky.social PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
Kevin Koehler @kkoehler.bsky.social Associate Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa; PI MENA-PERC project; research on political elites in MENA, particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey.
www.kevinkoehler.org
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Reinoud Leenders @leendersreinoud.bsky.social Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org All views expressed are my own.
Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Development/Labor/Education/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.
Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News. 
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Philipp Rotmann @rotmann.net Peace & security, conflict, stabilization, foresight & war/policy gaming | Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
Biff Parker-Magyar @biffpm.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Political Science
@Yale. Formerly @MITPoliSci @HarvardWCFIA. Contentious politics in Jordan & Syria. peripatetic product of the garden state.
https://biffpm.github.io/
Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net 🇪🇺💙💛 Consultant, author | Former war reporter | #InformationIntegrity #ProtectDemocracy #TwitterDelendaEst | Posts FR & EN | DM for Signal/Tchap | Hosted by Eurosky
Hari/ഹരി/हरि/هري @hariprasad.bsky.social serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social Researcher @IIR_Prague; fellow @prcprague; Lebanon, Syria, critical peace and security studies, security narratives, social theory
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social Professor Public International Law and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. Affiliated with American University Washington College of Law, the Atlantic Council and CILRAP.
Bente Scheller @bentescheller.bsky.social Specializes in Foreign & Security Policy, Middle East and particularly Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan. Author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game. FP under the Assads. Posts my own.
Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
murhaf مرهف @murhaf.bsky.social same murhaf on twitter (if that tells you anything)
works with nlp and data
lives for freedom and justice in syria and beyond
Hamidreza Azizi @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social Senior Iran Analyst at the International Crisis Group
http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
Hana Attia @hanaattia.bsky.social Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at Leuphana University & Research Fellow at GIGA. Interested in how states and IOs respond to global security challenges. Focus on the use of economic coercion & sanctions
Rola El-Husseini @rola-husseini.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
ME politics- gender- conflict
She/her
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Karam S. Nachar @karamnachar.bsky.social Executive Editor and Director at AlJumhuriya. Politics, History, Syria, and all things related to independent media.
محرر ومدير تنفيذي لمنصة الجمهورية. مهتم بالسياسة والتاريخ الحديث، سوريا والمشرق، وكل ما يتعلق بقطاع الإعلام المستقل
Google "Alois Brunner" @anfisa-aktion.bsky.social 🚫Antideutsch müssen draußen bleiben🚫
Cool kids donate to the: http://whitehelmets.org/en/
+
Medical Aid for Palestinians: http://map.org.uk
🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇦🇲🇱🇧
James Cox @mrcoxy.bsky.social Director of @peacifica.
I tweet peacebuilding, development, the Pacific, social justice & geekery
Wangal/Gadigal land
Australia
https://peacifica.org
Simone Tholens @simonetholens.bsky.social Associate prof International Relations John Cabot University & part-time prof European University Institute & adjunct prof Johns Hopkins SAIS. Working on war, violence, interventions and peace practice 
Paul Staniland @pstaniland.bsky.social UChicago political scientist, amateur bee photographer, Carnegie South Asia nonresident scholar, despairing Bulls fan, public school parent, etc. http://www.paulstaniland.com
Leila @leilashami.bsky.social Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
Simona 🍉 #HumanityIsDead @simonajeger.bsky.social Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. - Fanny Lou Hamer
Humanitarian Activist, Human Rights Defender, Clinical Research/Development Scientist, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Political Violence New Publications and Working Papers @polviolencepapers.bsky.social Sharing new publications and working papers on political violence: armed conflict, civil war, insurgency, terrorism, extremism, post-conflict state/society.
Tag @polviolencepapers.bsky.social to get reposted.
Currently managed by @ilaydaonder.bsky.social
Ilayda B. Onder @ilaydaonder.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M, studying political violence, civil conflict, and rebel organizations.
https://www.ilaydaonder.com/
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Jens Hittrien @jenshittrien.bsky.social Criminologist independently observing Syrian conflict. Bridging between (open source) research, local reporting & journalism, flavoured with proper thoughts.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Élise Daniaud Oudeh @elisedaniaudoudeh.bsky.social PhD candidate in politics on Russian presence in Syria/strategic narratives/social movements-associate researcher- Russian & Arabic speaker @uniLUISS @EUME
طالبة دكتوراه في العلوم السياسية - محللة سياسية- سوريا و روسيا
Embroidery and cats enthusiast 🍉
Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Tom Dale @tom-d.bsky.social Writer, researcher: global politics, conflict, civilian protection: https://zeroline.substack.com/
Previously from Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon. @tom_d_ on X.
Silvia Carenzi سيلفيا @silviacarenzi.bsky.social دكتوراه في العلوم السياسية، سوريا والشؤون العسكرية والسياسية
PhD from @ Scuola Normale.
Syria & SWANA/MENA – armed groups & conflicts; Islamic movements & contentious politics; critical approaches to political violence
Nicolò Scremin @nicoloscremin.bsky.social ESRC Funded PhD Candidate University of St Andrews | Non-Resident Fellow Program on Extremism (GWUPOE) | War Studies Alumnus KCL | Researching family influences on radicalization and extremism.- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Civil Wars Journal @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social Interdisciplinary, peer reviewed T&F journal publishing on intra-state conflict. Co-eds: Dr Alex Waterman (University of Bradford) and Dr James Worrall (University of Leeds). Usual disclaimers
Danielle Flonk @danielleflonk.bsky.social Assistant Prof International Relations @ Hitotsubashi Uni Tokyo | global internet governance | former MWP @ EUI | former PhD @ Hertie School
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Libération (Chroniques du Sahel) https://www.liberation.fr/auteur/yvan-guichaoua/ • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
Kelsie Nabben @kelsiemvn.bsky.social Social scientist - BlockScience, RMIT University, BlockchainGov
kelsien.github.io 
Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social JProf at @UniMannheim, prev @ox.ac.uk, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social,
@eui-eu.bsky.social, Conflict Dynamics, Humanitarian Affairs, UN Peacekeeping, #firstgen 🇨🇭
melaniesauter.eu