Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Vice President for Government Affairs at @CIPolicy.bsky.social. Former US Senate staffer. Lawyer. Cornell alum.
Bio: https://internationalpolicy.org/about/#dylan-williams
I write about politics, geopolitics, technology and culture, with particular focus on MENA. Recovering journalist and OG blogger at arabist.net; formerly at
@open-society.bsky.social and @crisisgroup.org. Usual caveats apply.
Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
Author, "The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia”
Retweet ≠ endorsement / views my own
Still on X (for now) @tomgardner18
United Nations Humanitarian Chief.
Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof.
Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Russia | Middle East | Nuclear weapons | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr. Associate @erep.csis.org | Fellow @kennaninstitute.bsky.social | Upcoming book WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM @wwnorton.com | Berlin-based
Art collector, educator, writer.
Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College | Non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution
Editor-in-Chief, AL-Monitor | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
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
Ph.D. | Visiting Fellow @swp-berlin.org
http://linkedin.com/in/hamidreza-azizi-fp
Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Nonresident @carnegiedcg.bsky.social. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
President of @Open-Society.bsky.social. Pursuing philanthropy grounded in critical thinking, local knowledge, and risk-taking, to advance human rights, equity, and justice.
Middle East/geopolitics/diplomacy analyst. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/.
RVI is a non-profit organization working in eastern and central Africa to bring local knowledge to bear on political and economic development.
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Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
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Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Sudani | Pan-Africanist | Researcher and Policy Analyst | PhD(ing) grassroots movements and political transitions
Ex-CNN Senior Correspondent. Middle East expert. Documentary director/producer "Seize the Summit" available on Amazon & others. President & Founder @inaraorg helping war wounded children. Views are my own.
President & CEO @crisisgroup
Sr Crisis Advisor Amnesty International — war crimes, human rights abuses in crises. Recovering journalist. Aptly named. Rawya = Storyteller in Arabic.
Husband, Dad, Diplomat, Traveler, Motorcyclist, Musician, Librarian.
Writer, translator, Beiruter. Senior editor at The Markaz review.
Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
VOA journalist, writer, #Arsenal fan, community-level soccer player
A human rights organization that supports Syria’s heroes in their struggle for freedom, justice and democracy
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Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Researcher, policy consultant, immigrant. Author of The Saviour Fish: Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake - a Wanderlust and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, 2022. Based in Ghana. Sudanophile.
screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Middle East reporter @washingtonpost.com
Lebanese-American; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @SAISHopkins FPI @FPI_SAIS
Investigative Reporter, The New York Times | Birch Professor at Columbia Journalism School & Director of the Li Center for Global Journalism
I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
PBS Newshour Special Correspondent traversing the wider Middle East & Africa. Ex-TheEconomist. Mother of hounds, proud daughter of immigrants.
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Journalist
Tigray, Mekelle
Northern Ethiopia
✨Vintage ✨millenial | daily updates on the war in Sudan | #KeepEyesOnSudan | linktr.ee/BSonblast
Yes it is I, Local Observer from Iraq Twitter. If you know, you know. Cringey millennial. Local Observer on Signal. She/her
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Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Senior Diplomatic Correspondent at HuffPost // CROSSING THE RED LINE on Biden/Gaza (W. W. Norton, fall 2026) // he/him
Say hi: akbar.58 on Signal or akbar.ahmed@huffpost.com
Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Political Risk | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers, increasingly เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Global tramp, currently employed by Al Jazeera- as Diplomatic Editor and Presenter, Inside Story
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.
Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Geopolitical and security analyst, Views are my own.
Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
MENA geopolitical risk | one warm day is all I really need | usual caveats re ♥️ & 🔁
Mom. Storyteller. Bollyphile.
Israel/Palestine Program Director for the International Crisis Group and in earlier avatars Germany, South Asia and Middle East bureau chief for The Economist
Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Director, Open Society / formerly, Amnesty International and TIME / views, entirely mine
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
Middle East analyst | author, ‘Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump’ http://tinyurl.com/y5qpl6bb
Award-winning journalist, eyes on the Horn of Africa. Migration, human rights, OSINT.
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zecharias-zelalem
Curious by nature. Storyteller by nurture.
Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
‣ 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
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
EVP at @cipolicy.bsky.social.
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
International crouton etc.
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
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
Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Lebanon Correspondent, Al Jazeera Digital
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut
Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Www.abdalhadi.net
Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
I invest in developing economies and study how sanctions are reshaping West Asia and the world. CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. Adjunct Prof at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. All views are my own.
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
Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, Medical Aid for Palestinians.
🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
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