Understanding Syria
A list of credible and informed accounts to follow if you want to make sense of developments in Syria.
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@idreesahmad.bsky.social
@kristyanbenedict.bsky.social
Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager: Crisis Response, Israel/Palestine, Syria. Also to be found drumming, climbing, and painting - https://www.instagram.com/kristyan_benedict/ Views all mine.
@simonajeger.bsky.social
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free. - Fanny Lou Hamer Humanitarian Activist, Human Rights Defender; Clinical Research/Development Scientist, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@syrianotes.bsky.social
Informing UK policy debates on Syria. Focused on human rights and accountability. Web: https://www.syrianotes.org/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/SyriaNotes/ YouTube: http://youtube.com/@syrianotes5908
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
@razanspeaks.bsky.social
Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories. Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
@zsahloul.bsky.social
Syrian American humanitarian, pulmonary & critical care specialist, president of MedGlobal, Gandhi award recipient for peace 2020, Chicagoan of the year 2016. Proud grandfather. Believer in humanity.
@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 🇬🇧
@leilashami.bsky.social
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War' Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social & co-host @thefirethesetimes.com Member @thepeopleswant.bsky.social Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
@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
@clashreport.bsky.social
Breaking news, reports, and opinions from ongoing clashes of the world. English | Türkçe | Français | عربي
@hassounmazen.bsky.social
Syrian, Journalist, Political Scientist. Analysis on Syria and the Middle East. Refugee from X (previously Twitter).
@trbrtc.bsky.social
Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Doing what I'm doing now (open source investigation combined with traditional reporting) because of Twitter's community. Retired hitchhiker.
@nickwaters.bsky.social
Award winning journalist, still interested in using open source information for accountability.
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@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
@ramijarrah.bsky.social
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
@thomasvlinge.bsky.social
Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
@hhassan.bsky.social
Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
@idreesahmad.bsky.social
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.