Idrees Ahmad
Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
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Understanding Syria
A list of credible and informed accounts to follow if you want to make sense of developments in Syria.
On the ramparts
Scholars, journalists, writers, and humanitarians fighting for truth and justice.
@jhcansler.bsky.social
Assistant Editor | World Politics Review I used to steal birds but now I’m a newspaper man. Washington, DC
@aur494840ora.bsky.social
@hannakienzler.bsky.social
Mental Health in War and Conflict Refugee Mental Health and Place Palestine, Kosovo,UK
@kristofbender.bsky.social
For a strong and democratic Europe. Against dictatorships. Deputy chairperson European Stability Initiative (ESI), former Europe’s Futures fellow @iwm.at www.kristofbender.eu www.esiweb.org
@lisametzgarauthor.bsky.social
Author of literary fiction who always flinches (and tears up) while taking hard, unflinching looks at all of our grief and beauty and hope. Also a blogger at https://substack.com/@lisametzgarauthor. Trying to stay out of all the echo chambers.
@sirharrysummit.bsky.social
Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit Hosted by Tina Brown, Reuters and Durham University 7 May 2025 | London sirharrysummit.org
@scoutshonorusm.bsky.social
Seattle Writer🌲Politico 💙 Mother 💋 Wife 🤬 Potty mouth🌈 Gen X 🌊Berkeley grad 🇺🇸 Former Army LT 🐾 Mama Bear Mandatory 🐱🐶breaks. Un-apologetically Opinionated. IG @unitedstatesofmotherhood X @scoutshonor TT @unitedstatesofmom FB @murphyraines
@markjohnpost.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post science reporter. Author of the novel "Though The Earth Gives Way." Co-author, "One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine." University of Toronto grad. Signal: majohnso.20
@rli-sas.bsky.social
The RLI is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law | Home of the Refugee Law Clinic | Part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://linktr.ee/rli_sas
@tombatemandc.bsky.social
BBC State Department Correspondent. Former Middle East. Host of BBC series #TheMandates. http://bit.ly/3RMvwTS . Email tom.b.dc@proton.me
@kooyjan.bsky.social
Communications expert / public affairs strategist. Board of Directors Sport & Rights Alliance. Former Deputy European Media Director Human Rights Watch & Foreign Desk reporter Dutch newswire ANP.
@garyspedding.bsky.social
Rugby Union 🏉 grassroots player & supporter of Palestinian human rights/liberation. Can also be found fighting antisemitism. Contact: Gary@gary-spedding.com
@indrapramitdas.bsky.social
aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she indradas.com
@mairenimhordha.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Gaeilge|Fr|日本語 |Wolof. She/they. Bijî Rojava. BLM. Free Palestine.
@jjholtland.bsky.social
Middle East Correspondent for @volkskrant.nl, based in Amman. Eyes on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen & the Gulf. Villages over cities. Tweets mostly in Dutch. Author of "De koerier van Maputo" (2021). E-mail: jj.holtland@volkskrant.nl
@briancrim.bsky.social
History professor, Holocaust Studies, former intelligence analyst, cat lover, beleaguered department chair, fleeing existential despair, author of Our Germans, Planet Auschwitz and other stuff
@gaps-network.bsky.social
The UK’s civil society network advancing Women, Peace, and Security and women & girls’ rights worldwide through collaborative advocacy, policy & research. https://t.co/VaL00X70LP
@amphora.media
www.amphora.media The non-profit investigative journalism platform of The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation. @daphne-foundation.bsky.social www.daphne.foundation
@neilabrams.bsky.social
Corruption, democracy, rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine. Words in WaPo, Slate, Foreign Policy. PhD, political science. He/him. Subscribe at https://www.readthedetox.com
@derbsdalesgreens.bsky.social
We are the Green Party in the lovely Derbyshire Dales Promoted by Derbyshire Dales Green Party c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
@ellastreet.bsky.social
I teach political theory and write about democracy, theatrical politics, political identity and judgment https://ella-street.com/
@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social
Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org and Direkt36.hu. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling. 🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi 📝 authory.com/szabolcspanyi 🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter ✉️ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
@brixtonink.bsky.social
An indie press from Brixton, South London, dedicated to publishing groundbreaking works on politics, history and literature. Check us out at brixtonink.co.uk
@julleht.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher in PoliSci @helsinkiuni, deaf, knower of European politics and a post-nihilist lad. Also Europe Elects, The Ulkopolitist, Databyro
@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
A close-knit community, a rich academic heritage, a creative powerhouse, a thought-provoking place.
@andreassieber.bsky.social
Associate Director of Policy & Campaigns @350.org Co-board chair TogetherForFuture Climate, Energy, Geopolitics Views = my own
@natashalennard.bsky.social
Well, since you’re all here, too… columnist at The Intercept; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life”; antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
@flubber.bsky.social
Int’l human rights lawyer (JD/MPH). Health, detention, torture, natsec, medical ethics & medical complicity. Prior: Physicians for Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, GlobalPost/PRI, DC Courts, American Political Science Association
@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
@minabagin.bsky.social
Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.
@kevinjonheller.bsky.social
Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.
@alaincadillac.bsky.social
𝙰𝚛𝚝, 𝚂𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝙹𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚎, É𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎, 𝙳𝚛𝚘𝚒𝚝. 𝙴𝚡-𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚛é𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚎𝚡é𝚌𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚏 𝚍𝚎 𝙵. 𝙶𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒 & 𝙹-𝙿 𝙵𝚊𝚢𝚎, 𝚄𝚗𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚝é 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚙é𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚎 𝚕𝚊 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚎, 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜. [𝙵𝙱: 𝙴𝚕𝚎𝚒𝚊 𝙲𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚌] [𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎 : 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚒 𝙲𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗, 𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝚓'𝚊𝚒 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠é𝚎 𝚙𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙻𝚒𝚋é𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 (𝟷𝟿𝟾𝟽)]
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
@mathieuon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication, News & Media Research Centre, UC, Ngunnawal country • Civic information literacy to counter misinformation • Political economy of labour in digital commons • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council https://dcpc.info/actions/
@martinshaw.bsky.social
The New Age of Genocide will be out in October. Also: What is Genocide?; The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Political Racism: Brexit and Its Aftermath (open access). Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona & University of Sussex. martinshaw.org
@yleniagostoli.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist in #Istanbul / giornalista in #Turchia / gazeteci. Previously, three years in the West Bank via London yleniagostoli.com
@taisasganzerla.bsky.social
Editor at ecfr.eu, previously Global Press Journal, Global Voices, The Cambodia Daily, Estadão. From 🇧🇷, living in 🇵🇱, before in 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧🇰🇭, ❤️ in 🇯🇵🇵🇭, standing with 🇺🇦🇵🇸💚, she/her
@joelhs.bsky.social
Professor of Religion, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. One of those liberal arts professors JD Vance calls “the enemy.” Probably a globalist elite. Thing-in-itself hating Jew. He/Him/הוא/ער
@theradr.bsky.social
Rabbi/award-winning author. 🌱Sacred + justice newsletter (100% NAZI-FREE!): LifeIsASacredText.com Newest 📚ON REPENTANCE & REPAIR: MAKING AMENDS IN AN UNAPOLOGETIC WORLD. 💥Collective liberation or bust. she/her
@charleymaher.bsky.social
Social Editor at Bellingcat. Prev investigative reporter for BBC, TBIJ, Seen & many others... Professional account, working class journo. Thoughts are my own. Like discussing representation, accessibility, new tech , social impact and tackling disinfo.
@ryanwrites.bsky.social
Writes CNF and short fiction www.ryantpozzi.com Rep: The Anderson Literary Agency https://andersonliteraryagency.com Author of The Mess That Made Them Appears in Across the Margin, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Villain Era, Northern New England Review, others.
@jakelehman.bsky.social
Reporting on Twitter's origins 📙 jacoblehman.substack.com ☠️ x.com/_Jake_Lehman 🐘 cyberplace.social/@aldergeshem 🌐 aintnoseagull@protonmail.com Ex- Eureka Times-Standard &c Poet in Pithead Chapel, Toyon, Cold Mountain Review &c Cal Poly Humboldt
@africasigessex.bsky.social
The Africa Special Interest Group is the hub for interdisciplinary studies focusing on Africa @universityofessex.bsky.social, and contributes to joint research activities, education, as well as student and cultural events on Africa.
@terryaoneal.bsky.social
Novelist | Screenwriter | Poet as featured on PBS @kviepbs @CNN & @nbc6 : a lover of the Harlem Renaissance who also teaches English [ ; ] ↗️ terryaoneal.com
@aaliamauro.bsky.social
👩🏽💻 Engineer 🌎 Environmentalist 👩🏽💼 AuDHD Founder @vertemode | buy less choose well Substack + YouTube: https://linktr.ee/aaliamauro SoCal 📍 contact@aaliamauro.com