"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare."
https://linktr.ee/EmissaryOfNight
I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Dame Magazine, Prism.
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
#OneYoungWorld Ambassador, Author 'Elite theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States: How US corporate elites created Iraq's political system'
Assistant Professor at Cornell, former NYU Abu Dhabi postdoc, Stanford PhD, CASA & Carnegie Endowment Fellow. Into Picasso, poetry, MENA politics, and Pittsburgh.
US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Journalist in DC, previously Kenya. Co-founder and Managing Editor of @51stnews.bsky.social. Covering inequality, gender, labor for the Washington Post, The Nation, Lux, etc. Organizing with The National Writers Union.
Political scientist at UCLA / Social Cohesion / Social Justice / Field Experiments / 🇪🇬 / 🤘🏽 / ⚽️
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). We share section-related information, calls for proposals, and the like. Tag us to amplify your work!
https://www.isanet.org/isa/sections/isss
Professor, School of IR, University of St. Andrews; researching authoritarianism, ethnicity, militaries, conflict, and democratisation.
The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War, and currently writing a book about it. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Terrorism, conflict, crime. @uniessexgov.bsky.social. Via Ohio, Camp Lejeune, PGH, CDMX. Co-authored book: "Insurgent Terrorism." https://sites.google.com/site/brianjphillips/home
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
Representation: Wylie.
No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton | Formerly Harvard Gov & Cambridge POLIS | Studying politics in Eastern Europe 🇲🇩🇺🇦🇷🇺 | isabelledesisto.com | @russiawatcher
Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Lebanon Correspondent, Al Jazeera Digital
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut
media worker & organizer
🗞️ founding editor of Beirut-based publication @thepublicsource.bsky.social
📃 Pitch me: http://thepublicsource.org/write
In-depth and uncompromising journalism in the public interest
إعلام مكرَّس لإنتاج صحافة معمّقة وغير مساوِمة لخدمة المصلحة العامّة
https://thepublicsource.org/
Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essayist from Beirut.
Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@Pol_Dep
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aymanmak
Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/mohamad-el-chamaa/
NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Interested in planes, clouds, and conflict | PhD candidate at TUDelft: whitephosphorus.info | Portfolio: baydoun.nl | Amsterdam, Beirut
Co-founder of @atharmagazine and @banatarchive | Historian | MA student at @MonashPolsIR | own views, RT & likes ≠ Endorse
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
Samir Kassir Foundation director. College of Europe visiting professor. EYL40 member. Wine reviewer.
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
I write code and make hot sauce in Beirut.
Director of chess things at keshmat.org
Engineer at @developmentseed.org
Send me an interesting map or recipe!
Political Ecology, Agroecology, Food Sovereignty
From Beirut, Lebanon
Based in Montréal, Canada
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
at Freie Universität Berlin • conflict & violence • justice & accountability • research ethics & safety
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center provides informed policy research & analysis on the challenges facing the Middle East & North Africa. RT≠endorsement
Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, specialising in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf political economy & sustainable development
MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
History PhD, EU-MENA, Human Rights, Writer, former Adjunct lecturer http://ihu.edu.gr - former head Böll-Foundation
Palestine/Jordan, alumni ECFR, GMF, ZEIT Bucerius. Back in Berlin from Thessaloniki.
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Advocacy @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de |
Affiliate Fellow @unierfurt.bsky.social & @zmo-berlin.bsky.social
🔎 Syria & Middle East/ MENA politics
🔎 Transnational repression & free press
🔎 Intelligence & security
🎓 on SYR-GDR intelligence relations at FU Berlin
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
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
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA. 14 years writing on Tunisia.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
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
Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics @ Humboldt University | political violence & democracy | the inner workings of dictatorships
https://felixhaass.de/
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Writer, translator, Beiruter. Senior editor at The Markaz review.
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
‣ 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
Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation; co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya. Views my own.
https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
Global History, History of Modern Turkey and Indonesia, Islamism, nativist movements, religions, gender, intellectual history
Occasionally: golden age rap, food, travel, and other fun things
PDFs of my articles:
https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon.
Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Poli-sci prof @ Temple, Senior Fellow @ DAWN, and luckiest dad outside Türkiye. I write on Mideast politics, authoritarianism, & US foreign policy. More: http://seanyom.com. ***Slowly moving here from Twitter/X...
Research on Protests & Authoritarianism in Asia | Center for Conflict Studies Marburg | Coordinator BMBF project @postcolh.bsky.social | Principal Investigator DFG project @afpro.bsky.social
More:
tasyd.com
teraqerat.substack.com
Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
The Unflinching Philosophy of Audre Lorde, forthcoming 2026
Social and political philosophy, feminism, social change
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo by Frank Ward, 1999
https://www.calebward.xyz/
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
Human Rights Defender |
Minority Rights Researcher |
MA Gender Studies at unibo |
Phd scholar in scuola normale superiore|
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Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
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
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden
ME politics- gender- conflict
She/her
Researching transnational conflicts, violence, struggles for justice, change, knowledge politics at INTERACT | FU Berlin | Book: https://tinyurl.com/yckxdh62 | she/her
Researcher, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg & MIASA, Accra
Subjective security, conflict, qual comparison / Centrafrique, Lebanon, Somaliland, Haiti
Book: Security Arena in Africa
https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/staff/glawion-dr-tim
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/
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.
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
Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
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
Associate Dean SOSH, Professor & Chair, Politics & IR Program, DI, Editor-in-Chief MELG, & untutorable critic of all things Lebanese: Ubi libertas, ibi patria
Research, Advice & Teaching on:
Human Rights | Authoritarianism | Fieldwork | Academic Freedom | Shrinking Civic Space
👨🏾💻: Uni Erfurt | GPPi | CARPO
👨🏽🏫: Hertie School | Uni Potsdam | CIEE
👨🏾🎓: Humboldt Uni | ETH Zürich | Uni Hamburg
www.ilyassaliba.com
Professor of International Studies, Yogi (not in that order).
Ph.D. | Visiting Fellow @swp-berlin.org
http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
💼 Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University
🔍 International Relations | Middle East | social movements | sectarianism | labour | diaspora | focus on 🇱🇧, 🇮🇶 and 🇪🇺.
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
PolSci PostDoc @ GIGA Hamburg, Outreach & Transfer Manager of MECAM • Tunisia & Maghreb, social movements, pol. violence • Alumna Goethe Uni Frankfurt and PRIF
📍Berlin
PoliSci PhD Candidate @ University of Konstanz
Doctoral Researcher in "International Politics of National Legislators"
political elite behavior | international parliamentary assemblies/IOs | representation | hybrid regimes
Own views
🇱🇧🇫🇷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
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.
