David Roberts
Security, politics, int affairs. Gulf, MENA & beyond.
Reader @KingsCollegeLon
Commissioning editor @CambridgeUP
Adjunct Faculty @PSIASciencesPo
Book: Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies https://cup.columbia.edu/book/security-politics-in-the-gulf
@tomgara.bsky.social
writing and editing things. now: @meta, formerly @buzzfeednews, @wsj, @ft, views always my own, etc
@lizsly.bsky.social
Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
@alomran.me
Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social
Former national security analyst, Associate Professor. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
@caelyncobb.bsky.social
she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱 https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
@jelenasubotic.bsky.social
I play tennis and I write books. I hate pickleball. https://jsubotic.com
@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yemen-in-the-shadow-of-transition-9780197678367?cc=us&lang=en&
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@jkrasna.bsky.social
Teach at NYU CGA. Director, Center for Emerging Energy Politics in the Middle East, political and strategic analyst at FPRI. Former diplomat.
@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 | Contact [email protected] for work, media inquiries | he/him
@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
@stevenacook.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
@risabrooks12.bsky.social
Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
@rohanadvani.bsky.social
Studying the political economy of the GCC and Singapore. PhD sociology at UCLA. Fellow @centuryintl #coys
@ckrafftc.bsky.social
Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Education/Labor/Development/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
@hoffmanbruce.bsky.social
Proud 🇺🇸✡️ & Zionist who has been studying terrorism & insurgency for nearly 5 decades and is a senior fellow @CFR.org. My own opinions. Re-postings are not necessarily endorsements.
@danieltavana.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa. danieltavana.com
@pomeps.bsky.social
Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
@wlacher.bsky.social
Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation (2020); co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya (2023). https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
@erikskare.no
Postdoc University of Oslo | Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) | Linux and digital methods enthusiast
@peterkrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
@jonathanfulton.bsky.social
Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack.
@joycekaram.bsky.social
Senior News Editor, AL-Monitor | Professor, GWU https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
@bassel26.bsky.social
Associate Dean SOSH, Professor & Chair, Politics & IR Program, DI, Editor-in-Chief MELG, & untutorable critic of all things Lebanese: Ubi libertas, ibi patria
@mikeknights.bsky.social
@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
@aaronstein1.bsky.social
President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
@monaharb.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@eltaher.xyz
Co-founder @masaar.net . Researcher and Technologist. Blogger, Publisher of the CyberSurf newsletter & podcast host. Believer in dignity for all. https://eltaher.xyz
@jongambrell.bsky.social
Gulf and Iran news director for The Associated Press in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere. Reachable at [email protected].
@aysezarakol.bsky.social
IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
@patrickosgood.bsky.social
MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | Currently clean on OPSEC | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
@pehenne.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East politics, terrorism, religion and politics. Guitar/mandolin. D&D and Star Trek. Wouldn't trust any group that would have me as a member.
@cinziabianco.bsky.social
Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe.
@exum.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
@mattbuehler.bsky.social
Middle East Studies Chair & Associate Professor at University of Tennessee; Editor, Mediterranean Politics; Co-editor, Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb.
@kdiwan.bsky.social
@foreignaffairs.com
A magazine of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, founded in 1922. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ Sign up for our newsletters here: http://foreignaffairs.com/newsletter
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
@mattlevitt.bsky.social
Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
@seldeeb.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
@iojournal.bsky.social
International Organization is peer-reviewed journal, covering a wide range of topics in international relations and global politics. Editorial team: @bashleyleeds.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @peterrosendorff.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social