Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social MENA energy analyst | American abroad | author of The Algerian Dream, translator of Inside the Battle of Algiers
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
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Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
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Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
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”
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Susan Muaddi Darraj @susanmd.bsky.social Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com 
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Iyad El-Baghdadi @iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social Palestinian 🇵🇸🇳🇴
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social Co-Director, Funding Freedom; Co-Author Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket 2024); formerly @jvplive; @surj board 🧶 https://linktr.ee/rvilkomerson
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
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Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism @critzstudies.bsky.social CriticalZionismStudies.org
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social Covering the Global South for 51 years. Wrote “Freedom Rising,” about apartheid South Africa. Bylines @thenation.com, @newrepublic.com, @truthdig.com. Editor @Mondoweiss.net. Reporting about Trump's assault on #immigrants.
IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system + demand equality and justice for all.
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Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
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Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
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