@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&
@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.
@nickashdown.bsky.social
Canadian journalist/writer in Brussels writing mostly about Turkey. New Lines Magazine, LA Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, Globe & Mail, etc. Selected clippings: https://nickashdown.weebly.com/selected-published-works
@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
@liselhintz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Studying identity, FP, authoritarianism, protest, pop culture, other media. Turkey focus.
@pierocastellano.com
Photojournalist, biker, reader, writer: street photography, heritage, rights and struggle for them. Food&wine and their history. Italy, Mediterranean, Europe. 🧿 https://linktr.ee/PieroCastellano
@abujamajem.com
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️. www.abujamajem.com
@maschwar.bsky.social
Silver Professor of Politics, NYU. Specialist in democratic theory. Supermajority rule skeptic before it was cool. Co-author of Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining (Harvard UP, 2024).
@myriahmed.bsky.social
PhD candidate & research fellow at INTERACT, FU Berlin • resistance, protest movements and (urban) spaces • SGMOIK board member • formerly swisspeace & CMI
@brianjulrich.bsky.social
Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@janvoemel.bsky.social
Global History, History of Modern Turkey and Indonesia, Islamism, nativist movements, religions, gender, intellectual history Occasionally: golden age rap, food, travel, and other fun things PDFs of my articles: https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/JanVomel
@srd.bsky.social
Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
@yarotrof.bsky.social
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Author of two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions mine. 13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, next up 26.2
@tonyromm.bsky.social
economic policy correspondent at the new york times tips? signal: tonyromm.62 https://www.nytimes.com/by/tony-romm
@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social
Americas editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard Extension School // New Englander. Unregistered Ukrainian. Somewhat Canadian. Literally Irish https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/matthew-hay-brown/
@jessedougherty.bsky.social
College sports things for the Washington Post. Happy to be here, not there. Subscribe to my free newsletter, musing on the business and future of a truly wild industry: https://collegesportsmoney.substack.com/
@emgusk.bsky.social
Half of Post Polling, journalist, pollster, feminist, library fan, BRCA mutant. Nats! Caps! Terps! Kill them with kindness and methodological rigor. she/her signal: emgusk.04
@jenhattam.bsky.social
Freelance journalist in Istanbul covering enviro, social, urban issues + art/culture/food/travel: https://www.jenniferhattam.com (You may know me as TheTurkishLife on Twitter) Subscribe to my arts+culture newsletter: https://istanbuletcetera.substack.com
@risabrooks12.bsky.social
Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
@orelb.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.
@sebnemgumuscu.bsky.social
Political scientist, studies democratic basksliding, Islamist parties, Turkish politics
@ahmetkuru.bsky.social
Prof. of Political Science; Author of "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment"; webpage: ahmetkuru.sdsu.edu
@j-d-parker.bsky.social
Academic. Syrian history and ME conflicts. Liberal. Lived almost half my life in Tel Aviv. Also US, France, and Scotland. Audiophile, and hobby guitarist. Dem for now. Anti-racist and pro-Palestinians. Jewish.
@razanspeaks.bsky.social
Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories. Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
@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
@pmandaville.bsky.social
Academic, think-tanker, occasional public servant. Religion, world affairs, global development.
@dstoker32.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East History, focus on religious minorities in MENA, Football fan, Father, Husband, lover of cooking.
@henrikplaschke.bsky.social
Former associate professor of political economy & European Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. Posts in a variety of areas, incl. political economy, international relations, current affairs & politics, jazz & other musics etc. Reposting ≠ endorsement.
@aylushka.bsky.social
Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
@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.
@lizsly.bsky.social
Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
@erinmcunningham.bsky.social
Middle East News Editor @washingtonpost; previous life as a correspondent in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. Now in D.C.
@popovaprof.bsky.social
Polisci prof at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️ Democracy, rule of law, (anti)corruption in Eastern Europe 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺; post-Communism; Russo-Ukrainian war and its impact on European democracies; #UkraineIsEurope #DefendDemocracy https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
@davidmarcus.bsky.social
Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
@hafsahalawa.bsky.social
Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and human rights advocate, MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
@nmacfarquhar.bsky.social
New York Times correspondent and author covering Russia, the Middle East and sometimes homegrown extremism.
@ianmhartshorn.com
Professor of Political Science. Current project: international labor solidarity after trade liberalization. Cases and texts, international and domestic institutions, qualitative data. Part-time rancher, with one head of (cat)tle. Union guy.
@tomgara.bsky.social
writing and editing things. now: @meta, formerly @buzzfeednews, @wsj, @ft, views always my own, etc
@galwaygrrl.bsky.social
Moriarty Prof. of Gov & Int’l Studies, Dublin City University; Prof. Cyber Threats, CYTREC, Swansea University; initiator of VOX-Pol. Major research interests = online extremism and terrorism, online radicalisation, regulation, research ethics.
@tcwittes.bsky.social
President of National Democratic Institute. “I believe in democracy, because it’s the only system that believes in us.”-Madeleine Albright
@muratsomer-eng.bsky.social
Prof., Political Science, Ozyegin Univ. Istanbul & CEU Budapest: https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/muratsomer/ . Polarization/depolarization, democratic erosion & oppositions, ethnic, religious & secular politics. Türkçe postlar için: @muratsomer.bsky.social
@monicamarks.bsky.social
Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA. 14 years writing on Tunisia. Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.