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Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY.
Chief of Staff/Foreign Policy Advisor to 2 PMs & 4 of Israel's best Foreign Ministers since 70CE.
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Journalist; STT news agency in Finland, mostly foreign news. Previously in Istanbul, Turkey with The Wall Street Journal / Yle / Helsingin Sanomat in Istanbul. Third culture kid. Posts in English, Finnish, Turkish
Dedicated research monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy.
Official account of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the 🌍's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, promoting the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technology.
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Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
I write about and work on geopolitical analysis and strategy, with particular focus on MENA. Recovering journalist and OG blogger at arabist.net; formerly at
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Chief Correspondent Al Monitor
New York Times reporter focusing on Russia/Ukraine.
Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
Retired CIA Ops Officer and Chief of Station; Georgetown SFS, John Hopkins SAIS, and Author of THE RECRUITER: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
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🇱🇧&🇺🇸(Paris-based) Editor-in-chief Strategic Europe, Carnegie Europe.
Ex-IISS on Eastern Mediterranean.
Ex-Politico on Macron.
Ex-ABC News on Syria/Iraq/Lebanon/Israel.
Multiple Emmy winner.
Former Senate counsel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Special Envoy, now Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute. Write about law & politics, national & global security, Middle East, financial crime, cross-border issues.
Remnants of a war Journalist | AKA Alexander Page | @CJFE Intl Press Freedom Award
My book "On Contemporary Art, Archaeology & Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean" out 2026. Thinking archaeologically about Mid East, ASEAN, Oceania.
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Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
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Academic, author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords and Arab-Israeli normalization. Interested in conflict diplomacy, the modern Gulf, and tech surveillance. Disgruntled Khaleeji.NO WAR
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Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Middle East analyst | author, ‘Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump’ http://tinyurl.com/y5qpl6bb
Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
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
Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
Journalist + OSINT airstrikes data @yemendataproject.org
Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula since 2010. Once-upon-a-time I trained racehorses.
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Writing @dropsitenews. Interested in books, tech, history, global affairs, and language. فارسی/اردو/TR/EN
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Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly at IMEU, AAI, & Al Jazeera. Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸
Kaya Genç, a European Press Prize Laureate, is the author of Şehir, The Lion and the Nightingale, Under the Shadow, An Istanbul Anthology, and Macera. Web: www.kayagenc.net Substack: kayagenc.substack.com
staff writer @ The New Republic
He/him, they/them. Alien to myself. Human rights activist, queer rights troublemaker, founded Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Program. Concerns include Palestine, MENA, E Europe, climate. My opinions are my own; but you can buy them at fire sale prices.
Iran Chief Correspondent, @Reuters, ex-NTV, @IWMF awardee, French-Iranian, views my own
@Reuters deputy US foreign policy editor. Eye on State Department. Before: London, Cairo, Dubai & Turkey. @columbiajourn @kocuniversity alum. Personal account.
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Professor of Political Science at Özyeğin University, Turkey; specializing in global order, citizenship, populism and conflict. Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Weatherhead Center.
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Journalist - Analyst Conflict zones, terrorism, and security
Bylines at @MiddleEastEye @AJStudies @ActaFabulae
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Co-Director, Funding Freedom; Co-Author Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket 2024); formerly @jvplive; @surj board 🧶 https://linktr.ee/rvilkomerson
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
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Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Www.abdalhadi.net
Professor of International Studies, Yogi (not in that order).
🇱🇧🇫🇷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
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I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024).
Marx/Freud/karaoke
Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
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Political activists across the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Co-Head, Alliance for Two States, Middle East Director, International Communities Organisation
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Writer | US policy fellow
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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.
International desk editor, Christian Science Monitor (CSMonitor.com).
Irrational Boston Celtics fan. And yes to funk, soul, R&B, jazz and other American roots music, esp rhythm guitar.
Director of Research at Teneo's geopolitical advisory service
Politics & economics in the EU/EZ & Turkey
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Director of the Dahrendorf Programme
St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
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Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. Bygone journalist.└A expat. Former ed-in-chief at +972 Magazine. All views my own...for now.
Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
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Founding editor, SpyTalk.co. Longtime DC-based natsec journalist. Pvsly Newsweek, WaPo, CQ/Homeland Security, books, magazine freelance
Egyptian/Iraqi Brit. Political analyst and mediation specialist, working across MENA/Horn of Africa. Views here my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
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#HumanRights defender and researcher| Executive Director @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social Forum Prev| Associate manager @Sutherlandcorp | Master’s @unitartu |MENA coordinator| @CFWIJ |
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Stanford, Jadaliyya, among others. Opinions are mine
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Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; president-elect, American Society of International Law; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
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
Russia Team & GEOINT Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. I study war, 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, & 🇧🇾. Maker of maps and fan of GIS. Led grassroots effort to provide Ukraine Javelins in 2014. W&M alum.
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