
Synaps
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Arran Robert Walshe
@arranwalshe
research & writing | cat daddy | contributing editor at amwaj.media
Karim Emile Bitar
@karimbitar
Professor of International Relations and Former Dean @USJLiban, Cofounder @KullunaIrada, Affiliations: @SciencesPo @MiddleEastInst, @InstitutIRIS, @TheGCSP, ENA
Caroline Howard
@carolinelhoward
Executive Editor @Forbes | Eye on journalism + 📸 + education | 3rd gen NYer 🌏 citizen
Sara Afshar
@saraafshar
Filmmaker & journalist. Director of BAFTA nominated ‘Syria's Disappeared’. Watch free worldwide: vimeo.com/209543741/fb3b…
Veronica Pedrosa
@vpedrosa
Present | Journalism | Communications | Jargon-free. | #COYG | also @veronicap.bsky.social
Mustapha Hamoui
@beirutspring
🇱🇧 I've been watching and writing about Lebanon for more than 20 years. I can sometimes get carried away.
Maryam Al Dabbagh
@maryamwd
Writer & Researcher - identity// arts & culture // migration // diaspora // SOAS alumna- MA //Arab//Iraqi identity//🍉
Christina Santucci
@csantucciphoto
National Digital Producer at Spectrum News. Previously @nypost & @timesledger. Master’s of Intl Affairs @BaruchMarxe. christina.santucci(@)charter.com
Joseph Bahout باحوط
@jobahout
Director @ifi_aub, Assoc Prof @PSPA_AUB. Formerly @CarnegieEndow & @sciencespo. Tweet in personal capacity (politics & other miscellaneous). PS: Block trolls.
Martine Zeuthen
@martinezeuthen
Anthropologist working in HoA & MENA, interest in violent extremism. Associate Fellow @RUSI @hedayah and @ICCT. Mama Amal & Aaliyah.
Corinne | كورين
@corinneba_
Graphic designer / Art director based in Beirut interested in social sciences, arts, and good music. Violinist, too 🎻
Olivia Mason 🍉
@olivia_r_mason
I'm a geographer researching mobility politics + resource colonialism. PI ESRC NI Grant 'Cultural politics of nature reserves in Jordan'. Views my own. She/Her.
Matt Bradley
@mattmcbradley
Foreign correspondent for @MSNBC and @NBCNews based in Tel Aviv. Formerly @WSJ in Egypt and Iraq. Retweets not endorsements, etc. Instagram: @MattMcBradley
Sylvain Perdigon
@sylvain_anthro
Anthropologist in Beirut. 'That we be willing to let it happen.'
Farah-Silvana Kanaan
@farahkanaan
contributing writer @ThePublicSource / researcher & dramaturg / commissions: [email protected]
Angie Nassar
@angienassar
Senior producer @AJPlus leading field deployments for docs.
Nicole Di Ilio
@nicole_di_ilio
Journalist focused on crisis and conflict zones. Areas of expertise: foreign politics, radicalism, migration and human rights. Between EU and the Middle East.
Alia Moubayed علياء المبيّض
@aliamoub
EM Economist. Former Geoeconomics dir @IISS_org; #MENA Chief Econ @Barclays; Snr Econ @WorldBank & @BDL_Lebanon. Alum @ENA_fr & @AUB_lebanon.
Alessandro Accorsi
@ale_accorsi
Researcher Technology and Conflict | Previously @crisisgroup, Stratcom @eu_eeas, Middle Eastern and investigative journalist | @cityjournalism alumni
Lizzie Porterلِيزي بورتر
@lcmporter
Award-winning correspondent in Turkey for @thenationalnews. Prev. Beirut & Baghdad. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. All views my own.
Erin A. Snider
@erin_snider
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • she/her • Book: bit.ly/3j8sN8k • over here now: erinsnider.bsky.social
munira khayyat منيرة الخياط
@mu_kha2
Anthro prof & cat-herder.
Henri J. Chaoul 🇱🇧
@henrichaoul
For a civic society based on full separation of State and Church, equal women's rights, free universal access to medical care and obligatory education for all
Nadim El Kak
@nadimelkak
Sports management @ISDEuniversity | Hoops nerd | Former sociology lecturer @AUB_Lebanon & consultant @TPILebanon @LCPSLebanon | Alum @AmherstCollege
Jessica G. Obeid
@jessica_obeid
💡ᴇɴᴇʀɢʏ ᴛʀᴀɴsɪᴛɪᴏɴ | ᴇɴɢɪɴᴇᴇʀ ᴀᴅᴠɪsɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛᴇᴄʜ & ᴘᴏʟɪᴄʏ | ᴊᴜɢɢʟɪɴɢ ʜᴀᴛs & sɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ ᴛᴇᴀ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ᴏғᴛᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴘᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs. ɴᴇᴡ ᴇɴᴇʀɢʏ ᴄᴏɴsᴜʟᴛ | @energize_ne
Raph Cormack
@raphaelcormack
Assistant Professor of Arabic @durham_uni. Author of Midnight in Cairo: a history of the women of Egypt’s roaring 20s. صعلوك الأدب
Scott Peterson
@peterson__scott
Journalist, The Christian Science Monitor; photographer, Getty Images; author of Let the Swords Encircle Me: Iran–A Journey Behind the HeadlinesRomain Molina
@romain_molina
Ecrivain. Auteur de dix livres + reportages/enquêtes pour The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC, CNN ou Josimar. Conteur d'histoires indépendant et basketteur
Sarah Copland 🦋 @sarahyvonne.bsky.social
@sas_yvonne
Dedicated to fighting for women's rights and gender equality | mother | feminist | writer. Seeking justice for my son Isaac, killed in the #Beirutblast
ندة
@nadaarafat
A Cairo-based journalist with @MadaMasr . I tweet memes but occasionally post about real world issues. والكون ده كان زمان ميسعش حتة من قلبي.
Layla Al-Zubaidi @lalzubaidi.bsky.social
@laylaalzubaidi
Head of Int. Policy Divisions/H. Böll Foundation, Berlin. Private account, retweets not always endorsement. I don't answer to racist/antisemitic/sexist hate.
Laura Longobardi
@lauralongobardi
Films for social change. Focus on climate justice, human rights, social justice. @fifdh #FIFDHImpactDays #HumanRights #Documentary #Cinema #ImpactProduction
Jamil Mouawad
@jamilmouawad

Garance Le Caisne
@garancelecaisne
Free lance journalist, author, documentarist.
Broderick McDonald
@broderickm_
Oxford DPIR | Associate Fellow @KingsCollegeLondon ICSR | Fmr Special Advisor @GovtofCanada Prev: @UNAOC, @Cambridge_Uni
Natalie Gruber
@nataliesgruber
Human Rights | Co- Founder & Spokesperson @JosoorNet, former member of @Border_Violence. Born @ 353 | she/her #TeamOrca
Timour Azhari
@timourazhari
Iraq Bureau Chief @Reuters usually in Beirut, Damascus or Baghdad.
Mike Azar
@azarstweets
Commentator on Lebanon’s never-ending financial crisis. International structured and project finance.
Hani Hassan
@hanihassan26
Disgruntled citizen - Living under a criminal regime of rampant impunity as of Aug. 4, 2020 ( Alternate reality account: @PhilOTheMist )
hajar srour
@hajarsrour

Basma A. Khalek
@basmaabdulkhale
Economist & Program Officer @IOFlebanon | 💚 philosophy, good politics, astrology, nature, photography | Visiting continuous learner | Writing my own thoughts
Akshaya Kumar
@akshayasays
lawyer. lover of dosas. advocacy director @hrw. adjunct @columbialaw, amma to ameya, ojas and rudra. banner photo of seeds being sown amid Gaza rubble.
Lameen Souag
@lameensouag
Not posting here any more, for obvious reasons; you can find me elsewhere. Blog: lughat.blogspot.com
Mohammed Dayekh
@madayekh
محمد دايخ - فنان | نائب رئيس اتحاد السوريين في المهجر | المدير التنفيذي - موزاييك Artist | CEO Mosaic 🇱🇺🇸🇾🇪🇬🇸🇦🇶🇦🇹🇷🇪🇺
Halim Shebaya
@halimshebaya

Maja Janmyr
@myrmek
Prof. International Migration Law @UniOslo & Associate Fellow @ifi_aub | PI @non_signatory | Humanitarianism & refugees | All things 🇱🇧 #StopArmingIsrael
Mateo Nelson
@mhnelson14
English Editor @SyriaDirect | Arabic ➡️ English translator
Katja Müller-Fahlbusch
@mena_amnesty
Hier tweetet Katja Müller-Fahlbusch, Referentin für den Nahen Osten und Nordafrika bei @amnesty_de. (Own views, Favs & RTs ≠ endorsement)
Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff🟣
@ssiminoff
Expertise on Syria, Levant, MENA, foreign policy, aid & development. co-founder, PDC inc. Fellow @NewlinesInst /NextGen @FP4America retweet ≠ endorsement
Dan Azzi
@dan_azzi
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Philippe Agret
@philippeagret
Journaliste
Jean Riachi
@riachi_jean
Chairman and CEO I&C Bank Lebanon / Chairman FFA Private Bank Dubai /HEC Paris / INSEAD IDP-C
Karam Shaar كرم شعّار
@karam__shaar
I help you understand Syria's political economy, Ph.D. Director @KShaar_Advisory Senior Fellow @NewlinesInst Co-founder @oopensyr أكتب بالعربية على فيسبوك.
Nihal Midhat
@nihalmidhat

Dan
@madamemyao1
❤️🔥
Jessica Svärdström,
@jessicasvrdstr1
Ambassador Designate of Sweden to Lebanon and Chargée d'affaires of Sweden to Syria
Victor Lachenait
@victor_lcnt
Conseiller politique 🔴@TheProgressives 🟡@PlacePublique_ 🌐
Marah Metwalli
@marahmetwalli
𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓭 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 & 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓮
Malak Shanawani
@shanawanimalak

Amar Mustafa | امار مصطفى
@_amarmustafa
MENA women's history ig: @banatarchive | I research MENA working class & Arab Left history | MA student at @MonashPolsIR | own views, RT & likes ≠ Endorse
Nadia Hardman
@nadia_hardman
Refugee and Migrant Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch @hrw. Lawyer and ex humanitarian. Tweets my own. Retweets not endorsements.
Venetia Menzies
@venetiamenzies
Journalist + photographer 📸✍️ assistant data editor @thetimes + sunday times | 💌 [email protected]🕵️♀️🏴
Mohamad El Chamaa
@mohamdech
Beirut-based reporter @WashingtonPost. Covering Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the Gulf. Past @LOrientToday. Urban Planner | Sport Historian. DMs open.
Eliott Brachet
@bracheteliott
Freelance journalist. Correspondent for Le Monde in Egypt 🇪🇬 ∙ Previously based in Sudan (2020-2023) 🇸🇩 for @RFI @LeMonde_Afrique @Radiofrance
Nasan | نعسان
@nasanshehada
Friendly neighborhood Intern doctor 🩺Aspiring IM Physician🩺Syrian. #medtwitter
Valérie Boiten
@valerie_boiten
A circular economy for fashion and textiles Senior Policy Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (@circulareconomy) Views expressed here are solely my own.
Hussam Hammoud | حسام
@hussamhamoud
🔍 Syria, Armed Groups & Migration | 📹 @ARTEfr | Bylines: @Mediapart, @BBC, @Guardian & more | 📖 L’Asphyxie | Lack the body to do militias modeling!
Al-Jumhuriya English
@aljumhuriya_eng
Independent analysis, commentary, and reporting on #Syria and beyond. Founded in 2012 by Syrian writers and academics. Arabic: @aljumhuriya_net
Noura Ghazi
@nouraghazilaw
Hi, I'm Noura Ghazi, a human rights lawyer, co founder and executive director of #nophotozone _org #Syria #arbitrary detention #enforced disappearance #justice