Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
I write sometimes
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Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Foreign Affairs Journalist | ONEST, Founder
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Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
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Hi - I created the Skyscraper Bluesky client for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. Enjoy Chicago, soccer, and bird photography. Not necessarily in that order.
Raja, Lens, Hammarby, Liverpool, Union Saint-Gilloise, Livorno, St. Pauli in no particular order. Law, politics and similar delusions. Skriver för sällan på svenska.
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
Orchid fancier. Reader. Gourmand. Beer enthusiast. Armchair detective. Securities lawyer.
Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Book: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5829/politics-as-worship/
My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
Professor of International Studies, Yogi (not in that order).
Former journalist running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
We work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.
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Reporter at large. Mostly migration/human rights. Words in @CJR, @nytimes, @nybooks and other places. @ColumbiaJourn visiting prof/alum. Board member @AMEJA. Contributor @OurWomenOTG. Travel addict.
Defence Editor at The Economist.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
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
Egyptian Blogger / Journalist / Photographer. Keybase:
@zeinobia
. Just another talkative Egyptian RT is not an Endorsement.
In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My newsletter https://arabawy.org/newsletter
My book https://arabawy.org/counterrevolution
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
Senior Fellow in Politics at All Souls College, Oxford. Interested in jihadism, Middle East history, and digital methods. Linux enthusiast and nature-lover
Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Nicer in real life.
www.𓆲.com
🥷 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
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
Founder & chair, Kawaakibi Foundation. Obsessed with the future of liberty in the MENA & the world. Studying dictators at the Jamal Khashoggi Disinfo Monitor.
Book: "The Middle East Crisis Factory" (Hurst, 2021) 🇵🇸🇳🇴
(Account managed by @kawaakibi.org)
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
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.
Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order.
Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
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Journalist. Ex-Washington Post Mideast bureau chief. Also based in China, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Italy, US.
Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
‣ 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
Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Writer: Egypt, History, Beer
http://omar.foda.family
https://substack.com/@omardfoda
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
Professor at the University of Waterloo and Senior Fellow at CIGI, interested in International Affairs and Geopolitics of Technology.
Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
This time I won't run after anything, you will find me playing with ducks.
Scientist, Human Rights Defender, Cat Decipherer, and Mother 💛
#FreeAlaa
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Director of Advocacy at the Middle East Democracy Center (MEDC)
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
Campaign to free imprisoned democracy activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
The independent, reader-supported newsletter on Turkish politics & business. Pun-tification included. Türkçe için: @studyorecap.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com
Free agent social scientist studying political instability and human security
Middle East reporter @washingtonpost.com
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
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.
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Associate Professor Roma Tre University, Scientific Advisor Istituto Affari Internazionali,
Editor The International Spectator,
Tweeting in personal capacity
Co-author of The Khaleeji Voice, international advisor at
RIEAS.
Director Research Division NATO Defence College, member WEF Global Future Council on Geopolitics, author of Zukunft: eine Bedienungsanleitung
NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Enthusiastic about Appalachia, bird dogs, a solid majority of my children, and 28-gauge shotguns. I sometimes write things here: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-exum/
A Complex woman. Cynical & sarcastic since I was 9. Political economist by degree, financial analyst by practice. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
أجمع الضد في كل الأمور
Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
Eyes on #Libya, MENA geopolitics & security.
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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
President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC
Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
Journalist, fellow at Century International, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com https://www.hidden-cities.com/
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
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/)
An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/egypt-under-elsisi-9780755649136/
Co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War'
Co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com & host of @syriapodcast.bsky.social
Blogs at: https://leilashami.wordpress.com/
President & CEO @crisisgroup
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center provides informed policy research & analysis on the challenges facing the Middle East & North Africa. RT≠endorsement
Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
Chief executive @una-uk.bsky.social and regular on @disordershow.bsky.social; formerly at @theeln.bsky.social, The Elders, Chatham House, and the Economist Intelligence Unit (not all at once); working on peace and international cooperation
cultural historian of the Middle East
Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, academic
sinanantoon.com
Director of @CenturyIntl, senior fellow @TCFdotorg.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Politics, politics, politics
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy
