Middle East Research and Information Project
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Starter Packs
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MERIP Starter Pack!
A list of MERIP contributors, editors, and comrades to get you started!
@noura.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
@vjumamel.bsky.social
Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara https://vjumamel.com
@canaciksoz.bsky.social
Anthropologist @UCLA, author of Sacrificial Limbs https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sacrificial-limbs/paper
@palestinecenter.bsky.social
Nonprofit in Washington, D.C. educating the U.S. public & policymakers on Palestine and supporting Palestinian liberation through education, culture, arts, & advocacy. https://thejerusalemfund.org/
@leendersreinoud.bsky.social
Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies, King's College London, Department of War Studies. https://www.reinoudleenders.org
@theimeu.bsky.social
Your go-to for facts, sources & untold stories on all things #Palestine, #Palestinians & #PalestinianAmericans— politics, culture & activism. Connecting journalists with experts: info@imeu.org. Sister org of @imeupolicy.bsky.social
@magiclantern.bsky.social
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
@msentropy.bsky.social
Your Lady of Chaos (Theory) | Cassandra of Geopolitics | MENA - Nazis - ISIS - political violence - etc. | https://substack.com/@msentropy
@debastarr.bsky.social
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social
LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
@rasmuselling.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
@willyou.bsky.social
Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ to the undergrads at Lang/NewSchool and NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
@andrealstanton.bsky.social
Professor of Islamic studies & Middle East historian, University of Denver. Research foci: digital Islam, Mandate Palestine, Arab-world radio. Twin mama. Wordy by nature.
@maryamalem.bsky.social
Assoc. prof. at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Writing a book on Iran's Revolutionary Guards
@nabilal-tikriti.bsky.social
Middle East History Prof @ U. of Mary Washington; Ottomanist; 2011-17 MSF/Doctors without Borders USA Director; Relief Worker; Consultant; 1997-__ OSCE Election Observer; Drum Corps Fan; NOLA Booster; Follows Middle East, Caucasus, Balkans, Africa, C. Asia
@jessemyerson.bsky.social
Communications Director, @ifnotnowmovement.org. Views mine. I sometimes post about basketball and music.
@tgpeterson.bsky.social
Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Curmudgeon. Associate Prof. No Tyrants, No Kings. Terrencepeterson.com https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
@robsteele.bsky.social
Historian at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
@jeelyachar.bsky.social
Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
@mbazzi.bsky.social
NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday. https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
@jpketterer.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Center for Civic Engagement, Bard College | Diplomacy & Foreign Policy | International Development | Continuing Education | International Education | Middle East & North Africa | Jazz | Drummer | Baseball | Koshary
@makrevis.bsky.social
sakin sakin... Sociologist | Program on Turkey @ Stanford | MERIP Edcomm | PRIO Global Fellow | 🎾⛵️🚲
@timothynunan.bsky.social
Historian | International history, global development, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at Univ. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," now working on Shi'a Islamism | Views my own.
@asimqureshi.bsky.social
Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
@mitrara.bsky.social
@qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
@deensharp.bsky.social
Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all. www.deensharp.com
@yezidsayigh.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
@loriall.bsky.social
Author of A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (more interesting than it sounds)-academia escapee-writer-anthropologist-editor-mover of words. Dogless dog lover. Free Palestine.
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications danaelkurd.com to contact
@monaharb.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@omniakhalil.bsky.social
Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
@curtisryan.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics. Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.
@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
@ifnotnowmovement.org
American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system. We demand equality, justice & a thriving future for all #CeasefireNOW https://linktr.ee/ifnotnoworg
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@whazbun.bsky.social
IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
@keshavarziana.bsky.social
I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓See 👉🏼https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html and see latest book 👉🏼 https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25573&bottom_ref=subject
@sinemadar.bsky.social
Associate (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR