@marynovakovich.bsky.social
Travel writer, journalist, author of award-winning My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia's Hinterland. Words in Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent, i, CNN Travel, etc. Agent: https://cullandco.com/ https://linktr.ee/marynovakovich
@thenationalnews.com
The Middle East. Explained. www.thenationalnews.com 📍 Abu Dhabi | Baghdad | Beirut | Cairo | London | Washington DC
@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
Geopolitical and security analyst, Head of Intel at Le Beck International. Views are my own.
@shahed.com
Founder @ Zabihah | Digital PM | Managing Partner Elian Capital | Investor | Mentor | Past: Sr Tech Advisor State Dept, SVP Frost & Sullivan
@ghoshworld.bsky.social
Senior editor @Business. Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order.
@ollymizzi99.bsky.social
Journalist at The New Arab covering the MENA. Sussex and St Andrews alum. Finally got round to substack writing here: https://substack.com/@ollymizzi99
@rimsarah.com
Ph.D. in Public Law | Researcher in Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Human Rights, Religious Freedom & Civil Liberties in France, Europe, & North America | Opinions my own | Team Chocolatine.
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@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
@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.
@faredalmahlool.bsky.social
Freelance Syrian conflict reporter and researcher, bomb survivor, covering the ongoing crisis in Syria. Previous research assistant @columbia. Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool
@amroali.bsky.social
Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
@warghetti.bsky.social
Writer, translator, Beiruter & now part-time Montrealer. Senior editor at The Markaz review.
@samuelhelfont.bsky.social
Middle East/International history. Newest book: Iraq against the World (OUP, 2023). Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own. https://www.samuelhelfont.com
@khalilsayegh.bsky.social
Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
@alhakam.bsky.social
Linguist and urban sociologist from Aleppo with experience in cultural heritage, migration and development and a strong penchant for Ar <> En interpretation.
@amermatar.bsky.social
Syrian journalist, filmmaker, director of the ISIS Prisons Museum @alshare media foundation. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018). https://isisprisons.museum
@khaleddiab.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, activist. Eco-worrier. Punsultant. Author of 'Islam for the Politically Incorrect' and 'Intimate Enemies'. On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19gKQ5reRf/ On Mastadon: khaleddiab@journa.host Website: https://chronikler.com
@sebastianbae.bsky.social
Senior Game Designer at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). Adjunct Professor at Georgetown. Former US Marine. Opinions own.
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
Head of Data Visualisation @TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi #Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists) (Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
@ramijarrah.bsky.social
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
@ayoub.bsky.social
I do @thefirethesetimes.com + co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com +Editor shado-mag.com + affiliate fellow @post-growth.bsky.social + Newsletter @ Hauntologies.net + @syriapodcast.bsky.social @thestartrekpod.bsky.social From 🇱🇧🇵🇸 in 🇬🇧
@leilashami.bsky.social
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War' Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social & co-host @thefirethesetimes.com Member @thepeopleswant.bsky.social Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
@rajanbasra.bsky.social
Researching how terrorists think and act. ICSR Fellow / KCL War Studies PhD and postdoc / Studying cycles of violence and peace with XCEPT
@lauraknelson.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UBC computational sociology machine learning is feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
@jacobcmichelson.bsky.social
PhD from King’s College London (Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies) I Researching violent extremism and terrorism | Specializing in Islamic revivalist movements and Muslim youth in Western Contexts. On the post PhD job hunt 🎓
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@timbale.bsky.social
Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (out in pbk soon!). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
@simonwfuchs.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
@mcneilwillson.bsky.social
Lecturer in critical extremism and global Muslim studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Academic vagabond. Scottish Greens member. e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@aronlund.bsky.social
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
@davidwellsct.bsky.social
Global security consultant focused on terrorism, CT & technology: Former head of research & analysis at UN CTED: Ex UK/Aus intelligence
@profmabon.bsky.social
Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD. Sectarianism, geopolitics, sovereignty, nomos, political theory. The Struggle for Supremacy (CUP) Houses built on sand (MUP) Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
@secretsandspies.bsky.social
A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
@claudiagazzini.bsky.social
Senior Libya Analyst, International Crisis Group @crisisgroup. Traveller Foodie Mum.
@kvlassen.bsky.social
Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
@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
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
@drmazz.bsky.social
Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement
@martijn5155.bsky.social
Anthropologist: Muslim youth in Europe, Islamophobia, salafism, marriage, activism. Dept.Islam, Politics and Society Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands http://ru.nl/islamstudies; https://religionresearch.org/closer
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@cvtrc.bsky.social
The Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) at Royal Holloway University of London. Founding Director: @akilnawan.bsky.social; Co-Director: @lizzypearson.bsky.social
@rashaaqeedi.bsky.social
Storyteller and occasional provocateur Mesopotamian from Mosul,Ninewa Other interests include: Art, Culture, Pop Culture, Kale Smoothies, and Seneca 105K followers on X and heartbroken
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
@armedgroups.bsky.social
Research. Dialogue. Advice. https://www.armedgroupscentre.org/
@crg-ugent.bsky.social
The Conflict Research Group is a multidisciplinary research unit at Ghent University. We are primarily interested in the micro-level dynamics of conflict.