Peter Gelling
Writer and editor. These days: Senior News Editor
Business Insider. Olden days: Quartz, WGBH, GlobalPost, NYT. Interested in the Middle East, Indonesia, Islam, Global Conflict, Displaced People, Inequality, Tech, AI, Cats, and the Boston Celtics.
@jfxm.bsky.social
AFP Indonesia deputy bureau chief. Stints in HK, Abu Dhabi, Ramallah. War Studies grad. Interested in conflict, extremism, climate, human rights, OSINT. jfxm.myportfolio.com
@callumpaton.bsky.social
Journalist for AFP in Qatar. Opinions own. Email: callum.paton@afp.com
@ruthmichaelson.com
Journalist covering Turkey & the Middle East. Bylines @guardian, sometimes others. ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk ruth@ruthmichaelson.com www.ruthmichaelson.com
@sommervilletv.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent, BBC News https://www.youtube.com/@sommervilletv
@leloveluck.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com foreign correspondent covering international crises, including the Israel-Gaza and Lebanon wars. Based in London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. I’m new here. 🙋🏻♀️
@jmalsin.bsky.social
WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre. https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
@jackhewson.com
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent | Freelance Producer-Director 🎥 | DuPont-Columbia winner 2023 | BAFTA-nominated 2025 | jackhewson.com/showreel | Based in Istanbul
@halagorani.bsky.social
NBC News International Correspondent. Former CNN. Author "But You Don't Look Arab."
@lizsly.bsky.social
Journalist, foreign correspondent. 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.
@cheesemanab.bsky.social
Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
@mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social
reporter @WashingtonPost.com 📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
@chehayebk.bsky.social
Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
@seldeeb.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
@williamarmstrong.bsky.social
Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views. https://turkeybooktalk.com https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/
@sewella.bsky.social
News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
@jongambrell.bsky.social
Gulf and Iran news director for The Associated Press in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere. Reachable at jgambrell@ap.org.
@nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social
Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
@matthewdoran1.bsky.social
Middle East correspondent for ABC News Australia, based in Jerusalem. Former federal politics reporter. Proud South Australian. Wine and cheese fan. All views etc my own. No one else would want them anyway.
@sallyhayd.bsky.social
Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & the author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Irish Book of the Year)
@leilama.bsky.social
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants. leilamolanaallen.com
@suneengel.bsky.social
Security correspondent for WSJ and author of "Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation". Eyes on organized crime, terror and war. He/him.
@robahus.bsky.social
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria Yale World Fellow
@rafsanchez.bsky.social
Foreign correspondent NBC News. Covering the Middle East + beyond. IG: http://instagram.com/rafsanchez.nbc
@ceren-iskit.bsky.social
Journalist/producer Shares stories from Turkey. Featured in Fayn, bianet, Turkey Recap & more. Mostly on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@cereniskit
@achristiemiller.bsky.social
Journalist/writer, formerly based in Istanbul, now Norfolk. ‘To the City’ published by William Collins in UK and Pegasus in the US. All posts have grammatical/spelling errors.
@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
@lizcookman.bsky.social
🖋️Correspondent: Ukraine, Turkey, Middle East 📍 Kyiv and Istanbul 🏆Best Print & Best Specialist Journalist, Freelance Journalism Awards 2024 🏆Amnesty Gaby Rado award 2023
@mohamhawish.bsky.social
Award-winning Writer & Journalist Contributing Writer, The Nation. Ex: The Exonomist, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, +972 Magazine.
@raniaab.bsky.social
Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿 www.raniaabouzeid.com
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@abdirahims.bsky.social
BBC journalist. Open-source investigations (OSINT) editor at BBC Arabic. Posting on verification, visual investigations, disinformation, AI, data, Middle East, global affairs.
@brianwhitaker.bsky.social
Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East', plus several other books about the region. Website: al-bab.com
@johnhbowker.bsky.social
Bloomberg Editor - covering Middle East and North Africa politics and economics. Also johnhbowker on Letterboxd if you like films. Previously in Johannesburg, Moscow
@chriselkholy.bsky.social
online editor @ new lines magazine journalist & aspiring street cat photographer toronto by way of cairo [@chrysographer on the platform formerly known as twitter]
@ingridwoudwijk.bsky.social
📰📻📸 freelance multimedia journalist in Istanbul for @trouw.nl @bnr.nl and others
@mitrala.bsky.social
Journalist, Turkey correspondent (Dutch Public Broadcaster NOS), Feminist
@isaacjmartin.bsky.social
Middle East deputy bureau chief for EFE Spanish News Agency. Now Cairo, before Beirut. Former reporter in Morocco for El Mundo. All views mine. IG: isaacjmartin_
@mohsamir.bsky.social
Cairo based journalist and analyst, MENA & HOA focused. Executive Editor @ Daily News Egypt Opinions are my own, RT+ ❤️ ≠ endorsement
@asembefring.bsky.social
Middle East correspondent for Norwegian TV&Radio (NRK), based in Istanbul. Let’s fight polarization and base the news on facts instead of rumors