Middle East News and Commentary - Part 1/3
Accounts to follow for Middle East News and Commentary
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@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
@kdiwan.bsky.social
@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
@sana25.bsky.social
Writer and researcher on the Arab Gulf and South Asia. ✍️ https://www.clippings.me/sanaquadri 📍Dubai | دبي #FreePalestine #FreeSyria #StandWithUkraine #MahsaAmini #StandWithKashmir #FreeKhurramParvez
@contemplevant.bsky.social
A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
@willtodman.bsky.social
Senior fellow @mideast.csis.org and Chief of Staff @geopolitics.csis.org. Mostly conflict, governance, and displacement in the MENA region. All views my own. https://www.csis.org/people/will-todman
@afarrand.bsky.social
North Africa energy analyst | author of The Algerian Dream | American abroad
@lillyfrost.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, focused on citizenship, migration, law, gender, and Middle East politics, mainly in Jordan
@micahhh.bsky.social
Justice is a sign post on the road to liberation. There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. 🌞 #abolition, culturally ✡️, religiously UU, morally pro-🇵🇸 ✊🏻 Unceded Piscataway land/Douglass Commonwealth (DC)
@tarawnah.bsky.social
Writer, editor, researcher. Monitoring cybercrimes and free expression in MENA.
@cosmofa.bsky.social
olive pulp from 🇫🇷🇹🇳 reader, writer, critic. Ani is my writing disrupter 🐈⬛ Book on Folk Art ‘25. Also novel & series of essays in progress on postcolonial identities, expansive genealogies, and affective art. www.farahabdessamad.com
@maryahannun.bsky.social
Managing Editor of MERIP. Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
@laurentbonnefoy.bsky.social
Researcher in political science/CNRS/CERI Sciences Po (https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr) Yemen, Oman focus Orient XXI (https://orientxxi.info/) Arabian Humanities (https://journals.openedition.org/cy/)
@jeremielanglois.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Researching contentious politics and authoritarian institutions in MENA. https://www.jeremielanglois.com/
@amarmustafa.bsky.social
I read a lot | Research MENA women's history - ig: @banatarchive | Research MENA working class and Arab Left history | All opinions are my own.
@thistabithahope.bsky.social
based in Amman • posting about south Syria/Middle East/Russia • War Studies & RHUL alum • she/her • all views my own
@mahosebiane.bsky.social
Anthropology of Music | CRAL-EHESS | Heritage Studies on the Margins | Afro-Arab Music History | Music & Slavery | Possession Rituals | MENA | Arab-Persian Gulf & Western Indian Ocean | Posts : Fr / Eng
@dibabka.bsky.social
או֜מצװײיִק, דאָלוי פּאָליציי, they/them/zey Very Serious Political Economist
@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
@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.
@adammbaron.bsky.social
Former niche social media personality. Baltimorean. Calabrese. Aspiring gadfly. Future Security Program Fellow, @newamerica.org; Advisor, @hdcentre.org; obituary writer, British-Yemeni Society Journal.
@esmat.bsky.social
@joshuakoontz.bsky.social
Yemen Analyst, Geolocation & Maps, Follow/Like/Share =/= Endorsement, My posts are my own, Threads @jkoontz__ X @JoshuaKoontz__
@feathersb.bsky.social
Thinks a lot about governance, rule of law, justice & peace processes. Consequently depressing at parties. Independent political development expert, comics scriptwriter, & Senior Advisor @PAEMA. Opinions my own. Author of RE:CONSTITUTIONS, WHY THE PEOPLE.
@cinziabianco.bsky.social
Analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations on the Arabian Peninsula/ Gulf and relations with Europe.
@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)
@elhamfakhro.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Author, 'The Abraham Accords: the Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization' (Columbia University Press, 2024). http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380
@kyle-g-olson.bsky.social
Archaeologist and historian. Focus on: US-Iran relations through archaeology, labor history in the heritage sector, and the archaeological in contemporary art. Also dance. Speak: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 & learning: 🇹🇷
@farouha.bsky.social
@jadaliyya.bsky.social
Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
@michaelpbrill.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University | Non-Resident Fellow in the USAF Institute for Future Conflict | Former Global Fellow in the Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program
@dianavgalbraith.bsky.social
Foreign affairs, MENA, progressive politics, free speech, geopolitics, cats, labor, and irreverent humor. MA from Georgetown SFS. Dancer. She/her in the SF Bay Area. Onward!
@ammars.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics & IR at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - MENA politics, political economy and repression/violence
@geofffhughes.bsky.social
Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Lecturer in Anthropology and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@lalehjoon.bsky.social
Brooklynite, CUNY professor, trying to balance work on exile with some daily doses of beauty. Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) https://rb.gy/8likn
@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS. Maintained by @danni.id
@matthewpetti.bsky.social
Fulbright fellow in Jordan, 2023. Once and future journalist. Views are my own, not those of the Fulbright program or State Department.
@merip.bsky.social
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
@patrickosgood.bsky.social
MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | Currently clean on OPSEC | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
@khowaga.bsky.social
I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity. Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie | 👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10. Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you christophersrose.com
@jmwillis.bsky.social
Historian, Kentuckian. Stuff about Yemen, S. Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and all things guitar . . . https://www.johnwillishistory.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@WalthomstowC/featured https://johnmwillis.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine
@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
@hariprasad.bsky.social
serial typo maker. Researches ME/SA politics and political violence. mainly here for da memes. Apparently, a prominent person. Usual disclaimers
@ichamza.bsky.social
Disaster Medicine, Emergency Mgt, Drone Pilot. Contended with 2 wars & a revolution in Yemen Veteran of MRC_ASPR, MSF, ICRC, UN, Team Rubicon & others
@qdepim.bsky.social
Co-author of The Khaleeji Voice, international advisor at RIEAS.
@rola-husseini.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden ME politics- gender- conflict She/her
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social
@reustis.bsky.social
Reclusive Swamp Druid. Associate professor, Nicholls State: World Lit, Wilderness, and other "Waste" lands. Senior field & Wilderness Medicine instructor at NOLS. Wilderness EMT. Oud, bees. Fulbright Jordan 2015-17. South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone
@crystalennis.bsky.social
academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy 🇨🇦🇴🇲🇳🇱 https://www.crystalennis.com/
@seanyom.bsky.social
Poli-sci prof @ Temple, Senior Fellow @ FPRI and DAWN, and luckiest dad outside Turkey. I write on Mideast politics, authoritarianism, & US foreign policy. More: http://seanyom.com. ***Slowly moving here from Twitter/X...
@melancholyleftist.substack.com
Critical, historically-oriented social scientist with interests in democratization, authoritarian regimes, development, state formation, and imperialism. UVA, LSE, New College of Florida alum
@apsamena.bsky.social
Official account of the APSA Middle East & North Africa Politics Organized Section. apsanet.org/section49
@jeelyachar.bsky.social
Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
@katiezimmerman.bsky.social
Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Middle East, Africa. A lot on Yemen, US counterterrorism strategy, & Salafi-jihadi groups. katherinezimmerman.substack.com
@matthewteller.com
Author • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • linktr.ee/matthewteller • Rep: Ampersand Agency • He/him • Donate to support: https://ko-fi.com/matthewteller
@drhahellyer.bsky.social
‣ Senior Associate Fellow - Geopolitics, Security @ Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) ‣ Fmr: Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Harvard Kennedy School ‣ Specialise in MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia
@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
@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
@elgindy.bsky.social
Middle East analyst | author, ‘Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump’ http://tinyurl.com/y5qpl6bb
@omardfoda.bsky.social
Writer: Egypt, History, Beer http://omar.foda.family https://substack.com/@omardfoda
@hyyppati.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon.
@jonathanfulton.bsky.social
Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack.
@monaharb.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@hdagres.bsky.social
Iranian-American • Atlantic Council editor + senior fellow, Iran focus • 15 years in MENA • Newsletter: http://theiranist.com (Shares ≠ endorsement)
@blondearabist.bsky.social
@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
@azodiac83.bsky.social
Iran ☢️ program. Adjunct professor at @GWU. PhD - I read on war and nuclear strategy. Posts are my views
@nourhalabi.bsky.social
Race, migration and media academic, IDR Fellow at University of Aberdeen. Author #RadicalHospitality @RutgersUPress. Pronouns: she/هي
@sfahrenthold.bsky.social
historian of Middle Eastern migration at UC Davis | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
@thomasjuneau.bsky.social
Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
@salahbhpolisci.bsky.social
Postdoc for the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University. Former USIP Peace Scholar. Ph.D. from University of Central Florida. Military coups, democratization, & authoritarian politics. Admin of "Dictatorsky" feed www.salahbenhammou.com
@markberlin2.bsky.social
Postdoc at Princeton SPIA. Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University. Militant cooperation, extra-lethal violence, and Middle East politics. markberlin2.com
@sinatoossi.bsky.social
senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: sinabeyondborders.com
@pomeps.bsky.social
Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
@freddydeknatel.bsky.social
Executive Editor, Democracy in Exile, the journal of DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social | Previously @ World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social & Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com | https://dawnmena.org/about/who-we-are-2/frederick-deknatel/
@timep.bsky.social
TIMEP is dedicated to centering localized perspectives in the policy discourse on the Middle East and North Africa. (Twitter: @TIMEPDC) Sign up for updates: http://timep.org/newsletter
@alexstark.bsky.social
Associate Political Scientist RAND. Enthusiastic Wellesley alum. PhD Georgetown. She/her. Opinions my own. Go birds.
@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
@amroali.bsky.social
Public Scholar | Sociologist | Middle East Analyst | UNESCO advisor for the Arab region. I explore fractured modernities of the Arab world & the Mediterranean. I write to reimagine. Alexandria-Berlin-Casablanca. www.amroali.com
@rbkhoury.bsky.social
assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest first grader. www.ranakhoury.com
@hagerali.bsky.social
Researcher & PhD at GIGA Hamburg, Policy Advisor, Journalist. Civil-Military Relations, Authoritarianism, MENA, Sudan. Editor of #AutocraciesWithAdjectives at ECPR's Political Science Blog "The Loop". Alumna at CEU and Goethe Uni. Admin of Comparativesky
@willyou.bsky.social
Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
@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&
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.
@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.
@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.
@972mag-rss.bsky.social
Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS. Maintained by @danni.id
@ionacraig.com
Journalist. Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula. Sometimes @yemendataproject.org. Board member: @tcij.org, @declassifieduk.org. Once upon a time I trained racehorses Subscribe for Yemen-related things 👇 www.patreon.com/ionacraig https://linktr.ee/ionacraig
@istanbultelaviv.bsky.social
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Author of Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a new book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Also writes for Haaretz and more.
@jehadabusalim.bsky.social
Writer. Executive Director of Institute for Palestine Studies-USA ✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com 🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
@tekaldas.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic Study and teach at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona #RefugeesWelcome He/Him 📍Barcelona
@jankypants.bsky.social
the jankier the pants, the player you get birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
@bmomani.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Waterloo in Political Science and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs.