@syrianzo.bsky.social
Damascene | Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow @EUI | CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow @CEU |Adjunct Professor @Johns Hopkins | Political violence and civil war | Focusing on wartime and postwar southern Syria
@merip.bsky.social
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
@tksshawa.bsky.social
Writer, analyst | US policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, editor at AJ+ | words in: @washingtonpost.com, @latimes.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @thenation.com, etc. Twitter: @tksshawa
@omarwaraich.bsky.social
Senior Advisor, Open Society / formerly, Amnesty International and TIME / views, entirely mine
@cmblanchard.bsky.social
Citizen. MENA Analyst on a Hill. Objectively speaking. Views expressed are my own.
@edmundbower.bsky.social
Journalist based in Beirut, covering Egypt, Lebanon and beyond. Bylines in The Times, The Guardian, AGBI and others. www.edmundbower.com
@baydoun.bsky.social
Interested in planes, clouds, and conflict | OSINT Researcher | PhD candidate @TUDelft | Amsterdam, Beirut ahmadbeydoun.com
@cheesemanab.bsky.social
Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
@jenifervaughan.bsky.social
Spox 🇺🇳 @UNEnvoySyria / Ex Yale Fellow, UNHCR, OCHA, Al Jazeera, CNN; Peabody, Gracie award winner 🇨🇭 🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧🇦🇪🇶🇦 [email protected]
@kellyp90.bsky.social
MENA Programme Manager at ECFR, focusing on regional migration and humanitarian issues. London based.
@3yyash.bsky.social
Journalist, Translator, and Researcher - Working on Islamic movements, Democracy, and Human Rights in the Middle East. 3yyash@proton[.]me
@angelaziccardi.bsky.social
@ecfr.eu / @ecfrrome.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇪🇺 | Foreign policy / MENA region & Med / Migration / Energy Based in Rome, before in 🇹🇷&🇹🇳
@max-fisher.bsky.social
Co-host of the podcasts OFFLINE and HOW WE GOT HERE on Crooked Media. Author of THE CHAOS MACHINE, an NPR and New Yorker best book of 2022.
@haidhaid22.bsky.social
Senior Consulting Associate Fellow, Chatham House @CH_MENAP | PhD from @warstudies | a Syrian who writes about Syria among other things. RT ≠ endorsements.
@safiraleaf.bsky.social
@natachadanon.bsky.social
Damascus-based journalist focused on everything Levantine Programs Manager @SyriaDirect.bsky.social
@syriadirect.bsky.social
Independent media and training organization producing in-depth, investigative reporting on Syria by our team of Syrian and international journalists. 🔗 syriadirect.org
@orwaajjoub.bsky.social
Phding in Global Politics @mau.se. Focus: Syria, jihadism. Former researcher at Lund University. Words: @MiddleEastInst ,@AtlanticCouncil and others.
@zalali.bsky.social
Senior Adviser on constitutions @Int_IDEA. Teach at @Princeton. Author of books on Iraq + on Arab constitutions. Former @wiko_berlin @Harvard_Law @UNIraq @KingsCollegeLon
@simnasr.bsky.social
Journaliste spécialiste des mouvements jihadistes FRANCE24 Senior Research Fellow Soufan Center Auteur de « État islamique, le fait accompli » (Plon) الناسُ صِنْفانِ: مَوتَى في حَياتِـهِمُ/ وآخَرونَ بِبَطْن الأرضِ أحْـيـاءُ
@ilangoldenberg.bsky.social
Chief Policy Officer, J Street. Former Mideast Advisor to Vice President Harris and Director of Jewish Outreach on the Harris-Walz campaign.
@cjophillips.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations @QMUL; Assoc Fellow @ChathamHouse; Mostly tweet about MENA geopolitics, UK Foreign Policy and Aston Villa. Views my own.
@joosthiltermann.bsky.social
MENA Program Director @crisisgroup. Conflict mitigation, human rights, good food. Author of "The Resurrected," a novel (forthcoming 2025).
@hlovatt.bsky.social
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations. Middle East analysis and European foreign policy, with focus on Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara. Mountain runner. Usual caveats.
@jasminldiab.bsky.social
Director of the Institute for Migration Studies and Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Migration Studies @lau.edu | Senior Associate on Migration @timep.bsky.social | she/هي Better on: linkedin.com/in/jasminldiab
@sinemadar.bsky.social
Associate (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
@sarahdadouch.bsky.social
Currently reporting from Damascus for the Financial Times. Formerly Washington Post, Reuters. From Damascus, شامية قحّ [email protected]
@darthputinkgb.bsky.social
Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. YouTuber. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
@brianklaas.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
@maxvonthun.bsky.social
Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
@davidfrum.bsky.social
Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things. Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Reach me via [email protected] DMs open to followers
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
@yarotrof.bsky.social
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@cerianbond.bsky.social
Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow https://t.co/Gea41bGhz9
@nathanpatin.bsky.social
@Bellingcat member || former adjunct at Georgetown || digital investigations, infrastructure hunting, MENA, IOs, animal welfare, soccer
@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.
@delaneysimon.bsky.social
Senior Analyst, U.S. Program @crisisgroup. Before, UN in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen. New here. Usual caveats. https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/delaney-simon
@jamesmiller.bsky.social
The Casual Analyst: https://www.thecasualanalyst.com/ Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic