Eckart Woertz
Director GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, professor at University of Hamburg
@determann.bsky.social
Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Associate Editor, Review of Middle East Studies. Book Review Editor, Journal of Arabian Studies. Author of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy." https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
@gideonrachman.bsky.social
FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
@swp-mea.bsky.social
Africa & Middle East Division | Forschungsgruppe Afrika & Mittlerer Osten Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (@swp-berlin.org) German Institute for International and Security Affairs Berlin
@gershonbaskin.bsky.social
Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism, Africa, genocide, postcolonial memory; Prof Global History Founding president INoGS. Personal views
@michaelkofman.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
@mwhanna.crisisgroup.org
Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
@ifshhamburg.bsky.social
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany / Shares & Links ≠ endorsement. http://ifsh.de/impressum.
@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]
@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"
@monasaleh.bsky.social
Research Fellow @INEFDuisburg | PhD@CDCLeuphana @GIGA_Institute | Prev. @GVAGrad | Focus: Overlap & complexity, African organizations, agency, legitimacy.
@tmuefae.bsky.social
Lead Intl. Affairs Protestant Academy LOCCUM Dialogues on security/peace issues (#ArmsControl #MENA #EastEurope) Ex: @diplo.de @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social @swp-berlin.org https://www.loccum.de/profil/thomas-mueller-faerber
@gulfstatesinst.bsky.social
The Arab Gulf States Institute is an independent, nonprofit institution providing expert research and analysis of the Gulf Arab states. https://agsi.org/
@leamullerfunk.bsky.social
Senior researcher @demigkrems.bsky.social & PI @fwf-at.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
@jeremy-garlick.bsky.social
Director, Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University of Economics and Business. China's international relations, Belt & Road Initiative, IR theory. Participant in EuroHub4Sino - Horizon Europe project researching China.
@edwardluce.bsky.social
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including forthcoming biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
@behnazmirzai.bsky.social
Professor, Author, Filmmaker, Historian, Ethnographer, Middle East, Africa, and swimmer Founder of UNESCO/Brock Project http://unescobrockproject.ca https://brocku.ca/humanities/history/behnaz-mirzai/#contribut Niagara Falls- CANADA
@drrmason.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Non-Resident Fellow with the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
@oulakadhum.bsky.social
Diasporic lives, migration, transnational politics and religion. Leverhulme Fellow @SOAS working on Russian anti-war diaspora. Lover of food, literature, wine and all things fine. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/oulakadhum
@dahliasc.bsky.social
@memri.org
Bridging the language gap between the West and the Middle East & South Asia - and beyond
@anoushehteshami.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at Durham University, UK.
@skurtenbach.bsky.social
Peace and conflict researcher at GIGA / Honorary professor CCR Marburg/ comparative politics/ Latin America/ institutions/ peacebuilding
@mirademirdirek.bsky.social
Research fellow @Giga-hamburg.de | PhD candidate @unituebingen.bsky.social | mainly working on Turkey-Africa relations
@reinhardschulze.bsky.social
Seit langem mit der Islam- und der Nahostwissenschaft verbunden, engagiert in gesellschafts-, religions- und wissenschaftspolitischen Fragen | RT ≠ endorsement
@grauvogelj.bsky.social
Senior research fellow @GIGA_Institute, interested in sanctions, authoritarianism, African politics, feminist & food lover
@squirrelista.bsky.social
Professor for Int. Development @univienna political ecology | energy & climate justice & all things hydrogen | politics of survival, collapse & postdevelopment | energy colonialism | green financialization & derisking | sci-fi, queer & squirrel stuff
@abujamajem.com
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️. www.abujamajem.com
@housseinalmalla.bsky.social
🤓 Doctoral Researcher @GIGA_Institute @UniHamburg 👨🏻💻 Senior Research Fellow @Lebanese American University 🌍 Research on everything Foreign Policy Analysis, IR, Sanctions & Pol Psychology https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/al-malla-houssein/
@cvonsoest.bsky.social
Lead Research Fellow @GIGA_Institute, Head of Peace and Security Research Program | Honorary Professor @uniGoettingen | Columnist, https://www.faz.net/pro/weltwirtschaft/
@chusinan.bsky.social
Researcher @giga-hamburg.de Editor @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social Alumni @syracuseu.bsky.social @maxwellsu.bsky.social Bio: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/the-giga/team/chu-sinan China, intellectuals, ethnic politics, IR
@jgurolhaller.bsky.social
IR & China | Researcher @giga-hamburg.de | fellow @abi-freiburg.bsky.social | expert @China Horizons – Research Consortium | chair 24/25 @jungeakademie.bsky.social | Prev.: Postdoc @uni-freiburg.de
@jillianschwedler.bsky.social
Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social
ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: [email protected]. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
@idos-research.bsky.social
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), one of the world’s leading #research institutions for global #SustainableDevelopment. | Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
@clarasuess.bsky.social
PolSci PostDoc @ GIGA Hamburg, Outreach & Transfer Manager of MECAM • Tunisia & Maghreb, social movements, pol. violence • Alumna Goethe Uni Frankfurt and PRIF 📍Berlin
@katharinafietz.bsky.social
PhD Candidate Development Economics University of Goettingen & GIGA Hamburg I Consultant World Bank
@lizsly.bsky.social
Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
@sdestradi.bsky.social
Prof of International Relations, @uni-freiburg.de + DAAD long-term visiting prof, Reichman University IR | foreign policy | populism | Global South | emerging powers | India
@hanaattia.bsky.social
Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at Leuphana University & Research Fellow at GIGA. Interested in how states and IOs respond to global security challenges. Focus on the use of economic coercion & sanctions
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
@ripplingeralina.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher @GIGA Hamburg Politics and Law: Legal Resistance to Autocratization Previoulsy @MPIL Heidelberg @RedPolitologas #CentralAmerica #Nicaragua