SWANA PoliSci
Researchers doing empirical work on politics in Southwest Asia and North Africa, trying to cover APSA MENA and the POMEPS network. Continuously updated, here's part 2 https://go.bsky.app/9zMGqjt
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@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
@hannahel711.bsky.social
Freelance journalist | Westasia/North Africa, migration, international justice
@wendy-pearlman.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/
@stevenacook.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
@biffpm.bsky.social
postdoc @ Harvard Weatherhead 24-25 & asst prof @ Yale 25-. Networks, contentious politics, MENA. Peripatetic product of the garden state. https://biffpm.github.io/
@irenefmolina.bsky.social
Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fernandezmolina
@dylan-odriscoll.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Peace & Conflict at Centre for Peace and Security (CPS), Coventry University | Associate Senior Fellow @sipri.org | Drivers of conflict and pathways to peace | Bridging academia & policy
@drmazz.bsky.social
Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement
@rpmccarthy.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Middle East Politics Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-gov www.rorymccarthy.com
@aburushdink.bsky.social
Political Science ▓▓▓▓▓▓ at ▓▓▓▓ University. ▓▓▓▓ Associate w/ ▓▓▓▓ Center for ▓▓▓▓ Studies. Non-Resident Fellow at ▓▓▓▓▓▓. Certain info withheld.
@aleaccorsi.bsky.social
Researcher Technology and Conflict | Previously @crisisgroup.org Stratcom EEAS, Middle Eastern and investigative journalist | @cityjournalism alumni
@davidpatel.bsky.social
Visiting scholar at Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@avitallivny.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement More here: www.alivny.com
@scottrw630.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
@jjensehaugen.bsky.social
Research Professor at PRIO. Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff. Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
@aasiegel.bsky.social
Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder MENA Politics & Computational Social Science alexandra-siegel.com
@rmkubinec.bsky.social
Political scientist University of South Carolina. Interests: business politics/corruption, Middle East, measurement, Bayesian statistics The Bayesian Hitman: https://a.co/d/e4QmtKo Website: www.robertkubinec.com
@alsaadi.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate, Polisci | University of Toronto Ethnically-exclusive autocracies, political transitions, contentious politics, MENA region. سلام السعدي https://salamalsaadi.weebly.com/
@arielzellman.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University Co-director, Religion and State Project Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
@mortenvalbjorn.bsky.social
Associate professor, Dept of Political Science, Aarhus University
@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).
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@jwroberts.bsky.social
Professor/Chair Politics & IR, Roger Williams University. Spec. in MENA, social movements, political communication, ethnic conflict, games/simulations, & pedagogy. Views my own/RPs ≠ endorsement. He/Him/His
@fmccallumguiney.bsky.social
Professor in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Researches on religion, migration, diaspora and minorities
@bmomani.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Waterloo in Political Science and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs.
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Groningen • Middle East IR, regional and global ordering, sovereignty, recognition • PhD, Cambridge karimeltaki.com
@jeromed.bsky.social
Senior analyst on Jihad and Modern Conflict at International Crisis Group (ICG). Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Forthcoming book on HTS
@brunofeuerheerd.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Cambridge Saudi Arabia, Middle East politics & computational social science
@chouhoud.bsky.social
Arab and Muslim public opinion, MENA, Religion & Politics, Race & Ethnicity Associate Professor, Political Science, Christopher Newport University إسكندراني / Brooklynite #YNWA www.chouhoud.com
@andreaskrieg.bsky.social
Author - Asso Prof King's College London / Royal College of Defence Studies (Global Strategy Program) Fellow Institute of Middle Eastern Studies Director MENA analytica Ltd Interests: MENA, Gulf, Network-centric statecraft
@evaleopold.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Analyst. Writer. Researcher. IR. MENA. Iraq. HR. World affairs. By necessity, some Swedish politics.
@andrewleber.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U MENA politics, some photography, some translation New Orleans, LA ⚜️
@jeremielanglois.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researching contentious politics and authoritarian institutions in MENA. https://www.jeremielanglois.com/
@hudamzioudet.bsky.social
Poli Sci alumnus @University of Toronto. Ex: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings Institution. Coauthor Libya's Displacement Crisis: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Libyas-Displacement-Crisis Transit. justice, Libya junkie, yoga, cooking
@cbarns.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. @ University of Arizona SGPP. MENA politics, gender, public opinion, social policy, pol econ of development.
@cinziabianco.bsky.social
Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe.
@plutscher.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @UniOslo & non-resident fellow @DigDemLab: technology, autocracies, contentious politics and quantitative methods (he/him; FirstGen); https://philipplutscher.net/
@ibishblog.bsky.social
Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSI), weekly columnist for The National, and writer and speaker at large. Former Bloomberg columnist and New York Times regular contributor, now writing a lot for The Atlantic.
@zaz.bsky.social
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change
@profmabon.bsky.social
Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD. Sectarianism, geopolitics, sovereignty, nomos, political theory. The Struggle for Supremacy (CUP) Houses built on sand (MUP) Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
@solafamagdy.bsky.social
Mother | Exiled Journalist | @Paris Citizenship 2020 | Courage in Journalism Winner 2020 @IWMF | Ex. Fellow @TimepDC | Determined to share my Cellmates' Stories ✌🏼 نص بيضحك والتاني زعلان .. انا شيخ فلتان 🕊️
@apsamena.bsky.social
Official account of the APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Organized Section. apsanet.org/section49
@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.
@khalilsayegh.bsky.social
Political analyst | Palestinian politics |Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Co-founder & President of Agora (ἀγορά) Initiative
@abdalhadi.bsky.social
Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Author of “Trust in Divided Societies”. Www.abdalhadi.net
@kristianulrichsen.bsky.social
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. My work focuses on the study of the history, political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States.
@mwhanna.crisisgroup.org
Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
@peterkrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
@ayanassar.bsky.social
@azelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com
@cbarrie.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Webpage: cjbarrie.com.
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
@samuelhelfont.bsky.social
Middle East/International history. Newest book: Iraq against the World (OUP, 2023). Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own. https://www.samuelhelfont.com
@soliman.bsky.social
Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
@mariajo121.bsky.social
Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa MECAM Publication Manager She/her No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future
@vfnewby.bsky.social
Asst Prof | Leiden University | Author of ‘Peacekeeping in South Lebanon’ | International Relations | UN | Gender | WPS | Middle East | Peacekeeping | WIIS Netherlands | CCL | Imm Joudeh | She/Her | Website: vfnewby.com
@becomingothers.bsky.social
Writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, queerfeminism(s), & film photography they/them University of Kassel (MA) / INTERACT, FU Berlin / queeranalogdarkroom (QAD)
@erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
@shalaby12.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study authoritarian legislatures and gender politics in autocracies
@andrea-teti.bsky.social
Author: Democratisation vs Democracy http://t.ly/XhGT; The Arab Uprisings http://t.ly/XWoZ Managing Editor, Middle East Critique https://t.ly/Uln0t
@3yyash.bsky.social
Journalist, Translator, and Researcher - Working on Islamic movements, Democracy, and Human Rights in the Middle East. 3yyash@proton[.]me
@magedmandour.bsky.social
An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/egypt-under-elsisi-9780755649136/
@miodownik.bsky.social
Full Professor - Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania). Currently at INTERACT (FU University, Berlin). Conflict Processes, Civil Wars, Ethno-Political conflict, Violence, Jerusalem. Amateur Genealogist.
@yabouzzohour.bsky.social
Political Scientist at Princeton University *Public opinion and state-society relations; trust in the military *North Africa/the Maghreb; the Middle East https://yabouzzohour.scholar.princeton.edu/
@marieheinze.bsky.social
Co-founder and President of CARPO - Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient | All things #Yemen | #FirstGen | RTs = interesting!
@minathabet.bsky.social
HRD and writer. Expert on minorities issues and freedom of expression in the MENA region
@mattbuehler.bsky.social
Middle East Studies Chair & Associate Professor at University of Tennessee; Editor, Mediterranean Politics; Co-editor, Edinburgh Studies on the Maghreb.
@myriahmed.bsky.social
PhD candidate & research fellow at INTERACT, FU Berlin • resistance, protest movements and (urban) spaces • SGMOIK board member • formerly swisspeace & CMI
@mirandawmeyer.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.
@karimbitar.bsky.social
🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
@meraymaddah.bsky.social
PoliSci PhD Candidate @ University of Konstanz Doctoral Researcher in "International Politics of National Legislators" political elite behavior | MENA | international parliamentary assemblies/IOs | representation Own opinions/views
@clarasuess.bsky.social
PolSci PostDoc @ GIGA Hamburg, Outreach & Transfer Manager of MECAM • Tunisia & Maghreb, social movements, pol. violence • Alumna Goethe Uni Frankfurt and PRIF 📍Berlin
@smokegatherer.bsky.social
Head of Digital Trace at Canada's Media Ecosystem Observatory meo.ca Author at No Starch Press nostarch.com/social-media-observatory القصة هي الحياة التي ما كانت و الحياة هي القصة التي ما رويت
@annekirstineronn.bsky.social
💼 Carlsberg postdoctoral fellow at the LSE, Middle East Centre. 🔜 Incoming Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University 🔍 International Relations, Middle East, social movements, sectarianism, labour, diaspora (focus on 🇱🇧 and 🇮🇶)
@hamidrezaaz.bsky.social
Ph.D. | Visiting Fellow @swp-berlin.org http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
@kkoehler.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa; PI MENA-PERC project; research on political elites in MENA, particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey. www.kevinkoehler.org
@isaliba.bsky.social
Research, Advice & Teaching on Human Rights | Democracy | Authoritarianism | Academic Freedom | Fieldwork | Shrinking Space Associate: GPPi, CARPO & Hertie School B4: Amnesty, Bundestag, WZB, CSS 👨🏾🎓Humboldt Uni | ETH Zürich | Uni Hamburg www.ilyassaliba.com
@bassel26.bsky.social
Associate Dean SOSH, Professor & Chair, Politics & IR Program, DI, Editor-in-Chief MELG, & untutorable critic of all things Lebanese: Ubi libertas, ibi patria
@hannesbaumann.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Arab states' political economy. Views my own, not my employer's. Author "Citizen Hariri: Lebanon's neoliberal reconstruction". He/him
@ingakris.bsky.social
Research prof at Florida International University's Jack D Gordon Institute Focus on cybersecurity and national security Move between the US, UK and Germany - sometimes with my cat PhD from King's College London on Libya
@mandour.bsky.social
Masters of Human Rights @Humphery School, University of Minnesota. MENA Researcher @Committee to Protect Journalists. #Press_Freedom, #Transnational_Repression, and #Tech_policy. Words are mine!
@ashartnett.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at USC POIR (On Leave - Visiting Scholar @ LSE Gov't, based in Kraków, Poland). Authoritarianism past and present, redistribution & inequality, land, elites. Mostly MENA. www.allisonhartnett.io
@hanaattia.bsky.social
Junior Professor of Security Policy and Peace at Leuphana University & Research Fellow at GIGA. Interested in how states and IOs respond to global security challenges. Focus on the use of economic coercion & sanctions
@nerminallam.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
@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.
@reginesonja.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Studying civil wars, non-state armed groups and wartime institutions. Interested in Middle Eastern Politics and Societies. https://www.regineschwab.org/
@timglawion.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg Subjective security, conflict, development / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti Book: Security Arena in Africa https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
@mariamsalehi.bsky.social
Researching transnational conflicts, violence, struggles for justice, change, knowledge politics at INTERACT | FU Berlin | Book: https://tinyurl.com/yckxdh62 | she/her
@rola-husseini.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden ME politics- gender- conflict She/her
@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
@patrickzaki.bsky.social
Human Rights Defender | Minority Rights Researcher | MA Gender Studies at unibo | Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore| 🇪🇬
@michatobia.bsky.social
Editorial Manager at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social | Heart and mind in Beirut
@hannapfeifer.bsky.social
Head of Research Area "Societal Peace and Internal Security" at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg @ifshhamburg.bsky.social