Brandon Friedman
Senior Research Fellow, The Moshe Dayan Center (MDC), Tel Aviv University
@nbacobwebs.bsky.social
Old pics, news clips, highlights and fistfights from the corners of NBA history.
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. [email protected]
@jpclark97.bsky.social
Historian | Educator of strategists | Editor-in-chief @warroomeds.bsky.social | Author "Preparing for War: Emergence of the Modern US Army, 1815-1917" | Now writing “Acts of Madness: US Military Strategy in the Pacific, 1897-1941” | www.jpclark.works
@histbooks-reviews.bsky.social
Publishes reviews of books on historical topics that covers all geographic areas and time periods, from ancient times to the present. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhis20
@himself.bsky.social
http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
@mutludc.bsky.social
Kurdish Affairs Analyst | Tracking #SDF #Afrin #Kobane #Rojava #Yazidi #KRG #Turkey #Syria #Iran | #PressFreedom | Your Gateway to the Kurds 🌍
@jeremywallace.bsky.social
China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE, coming in September 2025
@smh-historians.bsky.social
The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page. Posts by @awilks.bksy.social
@augustcole.bsky.social
Writing #FICINT http://useful-fiction.com #BurnInBook (2020) http://bit.ly/2sYB7gy #GhostFleet (2015) http://bit.ly/2usdwFC Fellow: RUSI & Atlantic Council
@orwaajjoub.bsky.social
Phding in Global Politics @mau.se. Focus: Syria, jihadism. Former researcher at Lund University. Words: @MiddleEastInst ,@AtlanticCouncil and others.
@gilesyb.bsky.social
Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, baker of overly dense loaves. I run five times a week so does that make me a Running Punk?
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@covertshores.bsky.social
Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos http://www.hisutton.com/
@robinmills.bsky.social
Middle East energy guru. CEO of Qamar Energy, fellow Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, author 'The Myth of the Oil Crisis' & 'Capturing Carbon'; columnist The National, weekly newsletter https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/energy-this-week
@cinziabianco.bsky.social
Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe.
@karimbitar.bsky.social
🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
@liam-stack.bsky.social
NY Times reporter currently in Tel Aviv, but usually in NYC. Formerly Cairo, and a few other places. Khawaga-at-large. Brand new to BlueSky. [email protected]
@mchrislow.bsky.social
Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
@rmomtaz.bsky.social
🇱🇧&🇺🇸(Paris-based) Editor-in-chief Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe. Ex-IISS on Eastern Mediterranean. Ex-Politico on Macron. Ex-ABC News on Syria/Iraq/Lebanon/Israel. Multiple Emmy winner.
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@faisalalyafai.bsky.social
@amassoud.bsky.social
Correspondent - @thenationalnews.com New York - United Nations TV news producer Award winning Documentary filmmaker
@alishihabi.bsky.social
Writing about the Politics and Economics of Saudi Arabia
@aidaalami.bsky.social
Reporter at large. Mostly migration/human rights. Words in @nytimes, @nybooks and other places. @ColumbiaJourn alum. Contributor @OurWomenOTG. Travel addict.
@ruslantrad.bsky.social
Researcher on information operations, disinformation narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia. Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab. Views are my own. https://bio.link/ruslantrad
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@crisisgroup.org
We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
@qdepim.bsky.social
Co-author of The Khaleeji Voice, international advisor at RIEAS.
@kdiwan.bsky.social
@andrewleber.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U MENA politics, some photography, some translation New Orleans, LA ⚜️
@mbazzi.bsky.social
NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday. https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
@sinanantoon.bsky.social
Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, academic sinanantoon.com
@alshabaka.bsky.social
The Palestinian Policy Network. An independent, nonprofit think tank without borders. Arabic & English. https://al-shabaka.org/
@emile-hokayem.bsky.social
Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
@jennruth.bsky.social
Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy. Host of The Negotiators podcast.
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Fiercely independent publisher specialising in the Middle East (Saqi), global fiction (Telegram) and progressive non-fiction (Westbourne Press) www.saqibooks.com
@conormel.bsky.social
Former academic/historian, here to try keep track of views I value for whatever reason, esp. on Empire/Religion/MENA/South Asia. Don’t post much myself. Now reading “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution” by Eric Foner
@adammbaron.bsky.social
Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly. Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
@davidlidington.bsky.social
Chair: RUSI, Conservative European Forum, Koenigswinter Conference & Aurora Forum. Trustee, Institute for Govt. History, singing & hill walking enthusiast. Ex-Minister & MP.
@nsarchive.bsky.social
An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu