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Postdoc ir IR - Research Group in International Public Law & International Relations @upf.edu
I teach and study Middle East politics, Egypt, US foreign policy, authoritarianism & other subjects
A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
News, comment and analysis from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. We 're here to report the truth about the Genocide in Gaza and Israel as well as offer comment and analysis from the best pundits in the region. https://levantis.me
Local Democracy Reporter for County Kerry at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
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Egyptian American Dramaturg, Scholar, and Artist
PhD at Northwestern University in Interdisciplinary Theatre & Drama/ MENA Studies
Decoloniality, Solidarity, Community
Diasporic lives, migration, transnational politics and religion. Leverhulme Fellow @SOAS working on Russian anti-war diaspora.
Lover of food, literature, wine and all things fine.
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/oulakadhum
Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
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/
I work on literature and literature works on me, academic gruff @Istanbul. Turkish Lit., History, Political Novel esp. on memory & military dictatorship. Author of Broken Masculinities. Focusing on far-right masculinities rn⚡️ https://cimengunay.net/
Political Science, travel, dogs. Not in that order.
Editor-in-chief, Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
Marie Curie Fellow @ShefUniPolitics- #criminology and #sociology scholar- critical studies on men and masculinities, gendered violence, anti-gender movements, psychosocial studies, migration studies, LGBTQ studies, gender sensitive design and research
Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own
PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
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!
Senior Legal Advisor @ecchr.bsky.social | Int'l law & human rights politics & praxis, detention & NAWA (MENA), freedom dreams
I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
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Caribeño y andino de bilad el sham.
Historia, Libros 📚, Anime, Gaymer 🏳️🌈🎮, 🎼, SWANA, Latam, 言語 y DDHH
Oversharer
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(Najeeb for English Speakers/ Nayib para hispanohablantes/ Najib/Nagib em português/ نجيب بالعربية)
Interdisciplinary research initiative of ABI Freiburg, University of Bayreuth, University of Erfurt & ZFK Marburg
🔗 https://www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/
YouTube: http://shorturl.at/bmqY6
Historian. Middle East. Global Studies chair, Williams College. Joint appt University of Iceland.
PhD candidate @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
History, Political Science & Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and American University Beirut
🌸 migration / postmigrant society / (anti)facism / theory / WANA-Region / memory culture
working at BIM (HU Berlin)
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PhD. Researcher at UofG | Political Transitions | Conflict & Peace Studies, mainly in Middle East & North Africa
Assistant Prof. Studying identity, foreign policy, grand strategy, authoritarianism, resistance. Often through a media lens. Often in/on Turkey.
Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scholar of gender and politics, comparative politics, and African politics. Weaver, rower, and amateur horticulturalist. https://ailitripp.com
Senior researcher at Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Social and intellectual history of Yemen. History and ideology of Ansar Allah (Houthis).
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/isa/das-institut/mitarbeiterinnen-mitarbeiter/brandt-marieke
Professor of Political Science & Director of the Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Egyptian scholar & journalist. Authoritarian politics; comparative judicial politics; politics of the Gulf States. صحافي مصري وباحث في العلوم السياسية
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief
Former Syria /Lebanon correspondent- in love with Syria
Yale World Fellow
PhD candidate | Peace and Conflict Studies | Lund University
Forskare och samhällsdebattör, bosatt i Lund. Inlägg på svenska, in English et parfois en français.
This is the Department of Political Science at Lund University.
Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden | Mainly working on the conflict-environment nexus in the Middle East | The personal is political
he/him, PhD candidate in political sociology studying welfare system reform in developing countries, UNC, 🏳️🌈,
A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social; https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
PhD student at POLIS, Uni of Cambridge
Research Fellow @ChathamHouse @CH_MENAP. Cautiously optimistic 🇮🇶 @AUB_Lebanon @SOAS. All views are my own. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
Researching protest movements taking place in Afghanistan between 2016 and 2026.
@zfk-mr.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social
https://afprod.de/
Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Posts about International Relations, Human Rights, International Law, Science and Space. Opinions are my own.
Filmmaker and producer of Emmy Nominated Feature Doc
@workerscup. Palestinian, Lebanese and Canadian. Currently living in Amman.
By day a mild mannered policy fellow @ecfr covering north Africa, migration and the geopolitics of the Mediterranean
Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
Philosophy & political theory @NUQatar | Working on theories of power, genealogy, political community, global capitalism | https://philpeople.org/profiles/torsten-menge
Damascene | Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow @EUI | CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow @CEU |Adjunct Professor @Johns Hopkins | Political violence and civil war | Focusing on wartime and postwar southern Syria
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
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
International aid and development. Conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Posts on Middle East, Africa, conflict, restorative justice, social movements, political transitions, and human rights. Views are my own.
Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Artist. Kuwait / Berlin. RP ≠ endorsement
www.moniraalqadiri.com
PhD Candidate in Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University | Wesleyan Alumn | Mixed Methods, MENA Politics
🖥️ mohameddhiahammami.com
Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Lecturer in Middle East Studies, @kcl.ac.uk | PhD in War Studies | Policing in MENA and LatAm | RT≠ endorsement
writer, historian and anti-authoritarian researcher.
I do @thefirethesetimes.com. Newsletter: hauntologies.net
Support my work with a small donation https://ko-fi.com/eliaayoub
Signal @ ayoub.02
📍Brighton, UK / Ferrara, Italy / Beirut, Lebanon
Un temps chercheure en sciences sociales/migrations géo-socio.
Un peu libanaise, un peu française, un peu sénégalaise, souvent d’ailleurs.
No borders.
Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, trade unionist, anti-imperialist, feminist
Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
Know a few things about global Palestine in Asia and Africa.
Trying to finish a PhD in our glorious Southwestistan (formerly known as Devonshire).
Contact: Abdullasm@proton.me
👩🏾💻 A political science blog site from ECPR, the European Consortium for Political Research.
🔲 Showcasing political science at its best. Get your research noticed beyond the academy http://theloop.ecpr.eu
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Postdoctoral Researcher & Academic Director at InIIS (@iniis.bsky.social), University of Bremen
Editor, The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social
submissions: benjamin.ashraf@newarab.com
she/her • PhD student at Mohammed V University Rabat • Interested in political communication, political change and behavior.
Law/society, religion/politics, authoritarian ‘rule by law’; Middle East/Egypt; politics of knowledge production. https://tamirmoustafa.com/books
freelance journalist | trying to grasp the complexity of the Middle East
most active on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wengerkarin
Work & more: www.karinwenger.com
Writing about the Politics and Economics of Saudi Arabia
Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds
Optimistic pessimist and a former clarity. topics: critical human rights theory, human rights history, modern & contemporary history & politics of Thailand, unfreedom, anti-fascism.
Works in higher education. More personal & more pop music in Swedish.
A self-organized group advocating for Palestinian rights at Lund University, we are staff from across the university & politically independent.
Assistant professor, comparative politics and IR @bupardeeschool.bsky.social
www.shamiranmako.com
MSc in Middle Eastern Studies, Tehran University, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Arab world, Civil-military Relation, Persian Gulf, Persian, Hebrew, English, Arabic, French
Sociologist of Middle East diasporas, bureaucratic violence, children of immigrants, gender and cultural analysis. Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University | Non-Resident Fellow at USAFA Institute for Future Conflict | Visiting Lecturer in Political Science at Westfield State University | Former Wilson Center Global Fellow
Director GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, professor at University of Hamburg
SSC Postdoctoral Fellow - Columbia University
Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey
Specializes in Foreign & Security Policy, Middle East and particularly Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Afghanistan. Author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game. FP under the Assads. Posts my own.
Humanitarianism & refugees, past & present.
Prof. International Migration Law, University of Oslo. Also Senior Visiting Fellow, Lebanese American University & Associate Fellow, American University of Beirut.
Associate Prof, Head of Middle East Studies, Uni of Copenhagen // Iran, History, Sociology // Views my own // English, Danish, Persian
Researcher and teacher @lunduniversity and associate fellow @UISweden International relations, European studies, digital politics and diplomacy
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
Distinguished Prof. of #Anthropology at Rutgers & UNESCO Chair in #Genocide #Prevention / mass violence, Cambodia, #law & society, #extremism, (de)polarization,
https://alexhinton.com / https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton
Twitter @AlexLHinton
Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
We are a research group at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. Check out our word cloud for our research expertise and interests! Visit https://www.svet.lu.se/en/cprg?q=research/research-groups/comparative-politics-research-group
Political scientist at Lund University. Democracy, Development, Historical Political Economy. Novelist at night.
Professor of Political Science @lund-university.bsky.social
Political Scientist @pol_LU, RT != endorsement, Supra Societatem Nemo,#rstat, # ❤️💛💙, 🇩🇰 🇫🇷
Assistant Professor in Political Science at
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) in Rabat.
Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey. UMich Polisci PhD. Gender, Candidates, and Political Behavior.
https://www.sarahillarymorell.com/
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.
The Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FIIN) is a group of scholars exploring feminist approaches to gendered institutions.
https://femfiin.org/
