Aaron Stein
Aaron Stein is an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is also the nonproliferation program manager at the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies in Istanbul, where he works on security and proliferation issues in the Middle East.
Adam Rawnsley
Adam Rawnsley is a Philadelphia-based reporter covering technology and national security. He co-authors FP’s Situation Report newsletter and has written for The Daily Beast, Wired, and War Is Boring. You can follow him on Twitter at @arawnsley.
Aliaume Leroy
Aliaume Leroy is a consultant on diamond smuggling for the NGO Global Witness. He works as a freelance investigative reporter on Swissleaks, drug and arms trafficking, and money laundering affairs. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Conflict, Security and Development at King's College London, focusing on counter-terrorism, private military companies, natural resource conflicts and asymmetrical warfare.
Askai707
Bellingcat
Cameron Colquhoun
Cameron Colquhoun is the Managing Director of Neon Century, a corporate intelligence consultancy based in London who apply cutting-edge open-source intelligence capabilities to conduct ethical investigations for our clients around geopolitical, commercial and cyber risks.
Chris Biggers
Chris Biggers is a public and private sector consultant based in Washington, D.C.
Chris Brace
Christian Borys
Christian Borys is a Canadian journalist who has worked with Vice, The Guardian, Macleans and others. He is currently based in Ukraine and can be found on twitter @itsborys
Christo Grozev
Christo Grozev for many years supervised the radio operations of a public US company in CEE and Russia. Currently owns and operates national radio stations in the Netherlands and Ukraine. Christo is a senior researcher at Risk Management Lab, a think-tank with a focus on security threats at New Bulgairan University (Sofia). In his work he focuses on Russia-related security threats and weaponization of information.
Dan Kaszeta
Dan is the managing director of Strongpoint Security Ltd, and lives and works in London, UK. He has 24 years experience in CBRN response, security, and antiterrorism.
Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog. Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigation tools and techniques.
Ethan Rosen
Ethan Rosen is a geopolitical researcher and analyst for China Six. His research focuses on the changing geopolitical situation between the Middle East and The Pacific. He is also the author of "The Bear, The Dragon, and the AK-47: How China, the United States, and radical Islamists conspired to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan."
Frederic Jacobs
Frederic is a security researcher working on encrypted messaging, censorship resistance and blockchains.
Syrian Archive
Jett Goldsmith
Jett Goldsmith is a journalist from Denver, Colorado. He currently serves as news editor for Neowin, and formerly is a member of the investigative reporting and geopolitical analysis outlet Conflict News. He is currently an undergraduate student in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies. You can follow him on Twitter @JettGoldsmith.
John Arterbury
John Arterbury is graduate student at Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, where he focuses on terrorism and substate violence. He worked previously as a freelance journalist in Thailand and the South Caucasus.
Jonathan Krohn
Jonathan Krohn is a Middle East-based writer currently focused on Iraq, Kurdistan, and the rise of the Islamic State.
Justin Seitz
Justin Seitz is Canadian security consultant and author of two computer hacking books from No Starch Press. He blogs at AutomatingOSINT.com and can be found on Twitter @jms_dot_py.
Karl Morand
Karl Morand produces the Middle East Week podcast in Amman, Jordan, where he is currently studying Arabic. He has a degree from Fordham University in international studies (Middle East focus) and a minor in economics.
Lawrence Alexander
Social sciences student, RuNet Echo contributor and independent researcher focusing on political use of the internet and social media.
Magnitsky
Iggy Ostanin is a freelance Russian journalist who does investigative research on the Ukrainian conflict. He tweets under @magnitsky and can be contacted at [email protected]
Masis Ingilizian
Masis Ingilizian is a researcher at the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He was previously a regular contributor for the publication IMINT Analysis edited by Sean O’Connor. His research focuses on the Caucasus, Iran and Russia, spanning the fields of strategic warfare, geopolitics and geostrategy. Masis tracks developments in the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict and provides ongoing insight into the geopolitics and growing tensions in the region, using imagery and photos for analysis. He also writes on the foreign policies of both Russia and the West.
Melissa Hanham
Melissa Hanham is a Senior Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). She supports CNS' research by investigating new techniques in open source analysis; incorporating imagery, remote sensing data, large data sets, 3D modeling, and other GIS data fusion. She is a regular contributor to the Arms Control Wonk blog, and co-teaches "Open Source Analysis for Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies" and "Geospatial Tools for Nonproliferation Analysis" at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Morgan Carlston
Morgan Carlston has a Masters in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University, and lived in Tel Aviv from 2010 to 2012, including during the 2012 conflict when Iron Dome gained international recognition. He blogs at http://persophilia.blogspot.com.
Nick Waters
Nick is an ex-British Army officer, and is currently studying a Masters at Kings College London. He has a special interest in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Ukraine, as well as security and international development.
Nour Bakr
Nour Bakr is a Middle East analyst with a focus on international relations, and Western foreign policy in the region. He has previously worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the EU, and Syria departments.
Omar Katerji
Oz Katerji is a freelance writer and filmmaker currently based in London, United Kingdom. He studied English at Manchester University and quickly began covering geopolitical affairs with an eye trained squarely on the Middle East.
Oryx
Peter Jukes
Peter Jukes is an award winning screenwriter and dramatist, who published The Fall of the House of Murdoch. He has since written extensively for The Daily Beast, Newsweek, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine and other publications about media and monopoly. His latest book is 'Beyond Contempt: The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial'
Pieter van Huis
Pieter van Huis is based in the Netherlands and is currently finishing his university studies
Pieter Van Ostaeyen
Historian, Arabist and Islamicist working as an independent researcher. Focus on Jihad in Syria and Iraq, Jabhat an-Nusra, ISIS and foreign fighters.
Ruslan Leviev
The Regular Contributor
The OSINT Blog
"The OSINT Blog" conducts open source analysis of conflicts and non-state actors in the Middle East and South/Central Asia. The author is a 20 year old undergraduate student who is studying Arabic. @theOSINTblog on Twitter
Christiaan Triebert
Christiaan Triebert is currently pursuing a MA at the War Studies Department, King's College London. He has conducted fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, among other countries. @trbrtc on Twitter.
Type 63
"Type 63: A Collection of Musings on Middle East Conflict" is the personal page of a Middle East / North Africa news and culture enthusiast, focused on non-state actors and how they wage war. The author is a 29 year old former US Marine infantryman, currently a graduate student for a Strategic and International Studies degree, with a research focus on the Middle East.
Will Horner
Will Horner is completing a Masters in Political Theory at UCL
Wim Zwijnenburg
Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for PAX. He works on conflict and environment related issues in the Middle East, the use and proliferation of emerging military technologies and arms trade @wammezz