Middle East News and Commentary - Part 3/3
Accounts to follow for Middle East News and Commentary, Part 3 Inclusion in this list should not be construed as an endorsement
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@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
@doaiji.bsky.social
I am Saudi-American. I breathe Freedom. I bleed Oil. • Harvard PhD Candidate • ∞ زوجي @alamer.bsky.social • @Ana3rabeya on Twitter • NoraDoaiji.com • ☮️🍋 •
@giorgiocafiero.bsky.social
CEO of DC-based Gulf State Analytics • Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University • Adjunct Fellow at American Security Project • SME Gulf States • Public Trust Contractor
@fadahjassem.bsky.social
Head of Data Visualisation @TheNationalNews.com in #AbuDhabi. Recent UK expat. Syrian/Iraqi #Journalist #Technologist #data, #AI, #OSINT & information integrity. A journalism polymath of sorts (if such a thing exists) (Ex-Twitter Head of Curation MENA)
@carolinetynan.bsky.social
international security, internet freedom/free expression, the psychology of authoritarianism. former @pressfreedom and Mnemonic. PhD Temple University. fired from federal work on internet freedom by elon musk. human rights advocate. author. surfer. 🌈
@tomthehack.bsky.social
Veteran freelance journalist covering West Asia for the South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/author/tom-hussain Proud father of 3 young adults. Love test cricket, Liverpool FC and Star Trek.
@maxsegal.bsky.social
Thinking about US foreign policy. Work on Israel-Palestine. twitter.com/mxsgl
@soliman.bsky.social
Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
@philipproudfoot.bsky.social
Researcher of activism, labour, accountability, and humanitarianism in the Arab World & elsewhere | co-founder of The Accountability Archive | Personal account, views, especially the bad ones, are my own.
@dimireider.bsky.social
Founding editor at The Lead, co-founder of +972 Magazine. Bylines at NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz and sundry others. Exploring journalism and trauma, and the long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays run daily online and quarterly in print. http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
@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.
@clivesg.bsky.social
Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, SWANA Jews. Teach at QMUL: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/gabayclive.html Drum. Sometimes some bass too. Is this the chill-out room?
@kolacekj.bsky.social
Arabist, historian, sociologist, teacher (Charles Uni), family man, nature lover
@baydoun.bsky.social
Interested in planes, clouds, and conflict | OSINT Researcher | PhD candidate @TUDelft | Amsterdam, Beirut ahmadbeydoun.com
@maymroueadra.bsky.social
actor & theatre artist, applied theatre facilitator, university instructor, community project manager, & researcher. Lebanese in Lebanon. Oh & an intersectional feminist because all the -isms, -ias & patriarchy are ew. My 🐕 represents my mood. she/her
@ramyyaacoub.bsky.social
🥷 at @open-society.bsky.social. ex @timep.bsky.social. Rocket Scientist @EmbryRiddle. M.A. @ausis.bsky.social. Political Analyst. Scuba Diver. English, Arabic, y un poco de Español 🇨🇦🇪🇬🇺🇸 Twitter: @ramyyaacoub
@3arabawy.substack.com
In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation. https://arabawy.org/newsletter
@zeinobia.bsky.social
Egyptian Blogger / Journalist / Photographer. Keybase: @zeinobia . Just another talkative Egyptian RT is not an Endorsement.
@patrickzaki.bsky.social
Human Rights Defender | Minority Rights Researcher | MA Gender Studies at unibo | Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore| 🇪🇬
@thebigpharaoh.bsky.social
@omeisy.bsky.social
Conflict Analyst. Senior Advisor @eurpeace.bsky.social, SGH @YemenPathways, prev IRC Director @USEmbassyYemen, @UNDPYemen, Coral Group. Views personal. E: omeisy@gmail.com
@rawanssa18.bsky.social
Human rights and tech @Amnesty| Ex @UN @TheSentry_Org @Bellingcat | Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen | Open-source and IHL/Human Rights | views my own
@kristinebeckerle.bsky.social
Beirut-based human rights lawyer wondering where we go from here.
@washinstitute.bsky.social
Advancing a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East. (Reposts & Follows do not constitute endorsement.)
@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
@gabehwkns.bsky.social
central appalachian person. political scientist working in tech. sometimes I post about the middle east and american foreign policy. nascar, broncos, and reds fan.
@irfannazir.bsky.social
Dubai-born, Kerala-rooted | Researching migration, identity, and belonging in the UAE and the Arab Gulf | PhD Candidate, JNU www.irfanahmednazir.com
@lizydent.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @WashInstitute primarily covering U.S. foreign and defense policy towards the Gulf | Former DoD and State | @MiamiUniversity & @AU_SIS alum
@alexjaymac.bsky.social
Middle East Eye, reporter/commentator. Mainly talk about Iraq, Iran, Israel-Palestine, UK and Turkey. Folk musician. He/him. DM any story tips!
@theoknights.bsky.social
PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
@rashajarhum.bsky.social
South-Yemeni Canadian. Mom. Co-Director of @peacetrack.bsky.social. Head of Rights & Freedoms Committee (RFC) at Consultation & Reconciliation Commission(CRC) supporting the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in Yemen.Posts my own.
@jhoover04.bsky.social
Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
@michatobia.bsky.social
Editorial Manager at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social | Heart and mind in Beirut
@nicholasacarl.bsky.social
Research manager at the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. Also supporting joint research efforts on the Middle East with the Institute for the Study of War.
@gerthuskens.bsky.social
Historian | MENA North-South Public Health Cooperation | Postdoc at Utrecht University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
@marcelvdsteen.bsky.social
Travelling journalist, photographer and filmmaker | podcast de balkanman | Balkans, MENA | (post) conflict, migration | Rotterdam Sarajevo Beirut | Gelukszoekert |
@fgeerdink.bsky.social
Journalist writing about power structures and those who want to tear them down. Kurdistan and beyond. Based in the Netherlands. www.frederikegeerdink.com/expert-kurdistan
@aklawrence.bsky.social
JHU Professor studying violence, nationalism, and colonialism; cook; mom; singer
@amelzac.bsky.social
Journalist at L’Orient-Le Jour • all Middle East • full Mediterranean 🌊
@kshaheen.bsky.social
Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
@tomfletcherun.bsky.social
United Nations Humanitarian Chief. Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof. Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Groningen • Middle East IR, regional and global ordering, sovereignty, recognition • PhD, Cambridge karimeltaki.com
@chris-doyle.bsky.social
Commentator on Middle East, international politics & Director of @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. (Views mine alone)
@louraisonnier.bsky.social
Ph.D Candidate uOttawa School of Political Studies Working on French ISIS returnees MA Sciences Po Paris • BA @mcgill.ca SSHRC Scholar • Network for Strategic Analysis Chair of Ukrainian Studies🇺🇦 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇪🇺
@majdgawdat.bsky.social
* Financier by major, Humanitarian worker by profession, Researcher by passion, & #FreePalestine forever ✌🏻 🇵🇸 * تمويلي التخصص، انساني المجال والمهنة، باحثي الشغف. #فلسطين_حرة ✌🏻🇵🇸 📍Yemen | اليمن
@beirutspring.com
🇱🇧 I've been watching and writing about Lebanon for more than 20 years. I can sometimes get carried away.
@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
@hafsahalawa.bsky.social
Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and human rights advocate, MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
@mchrislow.bsky.social
Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
@mariannedhe.bsky.social
crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer | contributing writer at Truthout and Yes! Magazine | marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
@johnlyndon.bsky.social
Executive Director at the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the largest network of Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders
@josephwillits.bsky.social
Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Politics, intl relations, psychology, etc. Making sense of a world that doesn’t Encourager and threat scanner Smith College BA, MSW | LSE #ActuallyAutistic #LGBTQ #MECFS Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath Substack: https://leahmcelrath.substack.com/
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@pdehello.bsky.social
Hello. International news editor and reporter for hire. Previously Quartz, The National, USA Today, CNN, elsewhere. 📍Brooklyn. He/him, deaf. Message Signal: pdeh.99 / @patrickdehahn on Twitter (RIP) ✌️ Remember we share the same moon.
@barrymalone.bsky.social
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
@benlorber8.bsky.social
Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
@caabu.bsky.social
The Council for Arab British Understanding works to advance Arab-British relations through its support for international law, human rights and democracy. www.caabu.org
@ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social
Freelance Yemeni journalist | Emmy & Sheffield nominee | OJAs winner | Covering Yemen/ME impartially | Press freedom advocate. Reposting ≠ endorsements. https://buymeacoffee.com/ahmadalgohbary
@richardjwallace.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics, IR, Peace & Conflict Studies | Focus on Politics, Religion, Violence in MENA & South Asia | Conflict Resolution | THFC
@abshlimon.bsky.social
Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold (sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/city-black-gold) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
@hyildizhistorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
@emilymprzy.bsky.social
Analyst on Yemen/Gulf/ISIS/Libya. Working @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social on the N7 Initiative. Shares ≠ endorsement
@juliahauser.bsky.social
Entangled history of Europe,South Asia and the Middle East. "German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill, 2015). "A Taste for Purity. An Entangled History of Vegetarianism"(NY:Columbia University Press, 2024). https://www.julia-hauser.de
@maryamaldossari.bsky.social
Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
@missalainneous.bsky.social
PhD in Middle East Studies. Research on transnational feminism, women and migrant workers in the Arab Gulf. Tweets are cries for help.
@omabarr.bsky.social
Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A. Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
@seyahatgame.bsky.social
Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/ www.hajjtrail.com/game
@mturkan.bsky.social
Studies the visual politics of cinema in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey, focusing on how media practices contributed to the Republic’s ways of seeing.⎢Car crashes and celebrity studies.
@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