Fadah Jassem / فداء جاسم
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)
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Syria’s OG journalists / experts
Syria’s long-time journalists & experts. Following along from 2011 and beyond.
The National News Journalists and Writers
The National News Staff, writers, columnists and contributors.
Data and Visual Journalists
Journalists from around the globe focused on data visualisation and visual storytelling. Interests include climate, elections, finance, macroeconomic, geopolitical and more… 🙏
@miasato.bsky.social
reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
@graze.social
Democratizing The Algorithm, one feed at a time. 👉 https://graze.social/ Need help? Wanna chat? Building something cool? Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/n936Bz7Pug
@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social
Geopolitical and security analyst, Head of Intel at Le Beck International. Views are my own.
@elotroalex.bsky.social
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
@journalismfestival.com
International Journalism Festival #ijf26 | 20th edition | 15-18 April journalismfestival.com
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@werd.io
I lead technology at ProPublica, write speculative fiction, and blog every day at https://werd.io.
@yvesvenedey.de
Freier Autor | Member of a „very common crowd“ | war über 12 Jahre u.a. Pressesprecher & Campaigner bei @campact.bsky.social | Abonniert jetzt meinen neuen Newsletter: https://steadyhq.com/de/klima-demokratie/newsletter/sign_up
@zidan.bsky.social
Platforms | Press Freedom | Journalism. Good takes and bad jokes. Dark humor and 🦋hite 🦋ine. Deputy director, audience, @freedom.press and @pressfreedomtracker.us. @zidanism on that other site.
@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.
@jdryan08.bsky.social
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
@mohamhawish.bsky.social
Award-winning Writer & Journalist Contributing Writer, The Nation. Ex: The Exonomist, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, +972 Magazine.
@mglattimer.bsky.social
Exec Director, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights War, justice, #civilianrights
@maherakraa.bsky.social
A narrative may color reality, but truth is colorless. Design Researcher & Journalist | PhD Student at University of Zurich | Research Associate at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU).
@mcerovic.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
@markurban.bsky.social
Writing stuff for Sunday Times, BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime presenter of Newsnight 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils and more!
@seldeeb.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
@alomran.me
Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
@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.
@rawya.bsky.social
Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
@liveuamap.com
https://liveuamap.com is platform that change the way you receive news. Latest news on the map. Contact us info@liveuamap.com. Posts sometimes op-ed
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@marklittle.bsky.social
Journalist entrepreneur. Talking media/tech/democracy. Founded Storyful. Co-founded Kinzen. Worked Spotify & Twitter. Ex-foreign correspondent 🇮🇪
@ajaltamimi.bsky.social
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
@joannestocker.bsky.social
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense.
@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
@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
@intersectsyria.bsky.social
Resources on Syria and intentional, attentive and intersectional solidarity from free Syrians with causes of liberation across the world.
@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
@syria.bsky.social
Thwarting Online Autocrats, senior security researcher @Citizenlab.ca 👨💻 @insyria.bsky.social is my other account
@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
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@ramijarrah.bsky.social
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
@thesyriacampaign.org
A human rights organization that supports Syria’s heroes in their struggle for freedom, justice and democracy 🔗 linktr.ee/thesyriacampaign
@geoconfirmed.org
Map and Investigations = https://geoconfirmed.org/ Managed by volunteers. You can help us: http://buymeacoffee.com/geoconfirmed
@sakhr.co.uk
🎥Executive Producer @ajplus.net 🇸🇾 Damascus resident until 2011 🇬🇧🇾🇪British-Yemeni ✍️ Social justice | Arab World
@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 🇬🇧
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Chair of European Movement UK. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Founder of the Bylines Network. Founder of Scientists for EU. Lover of science, Europe and whisky. 🥃
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@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 🎤
@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