Find Top 10 Middle East Influencers

Journalist-at-large. Former Washington Post covering global affairs and Middle East, and much of the world for Chicago Tribune, LAT

Middle East correspondent, @TheEconomist. Author, 'How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within.'

Iraq-focused Middle East watcher

Director for Regional Security and Middle East guy for @iiss_org. Twitter sanity tip: Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.

Ian Black is a visiting senior fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE. @guardian veteran. http://ian.black.public@gmail.com

Senior Advisor for MENA @Crisisgroup. Author of #TripleAxis and New Order in the Gulf. These views are my own. Retweets not endorsement

I teach #Iran & Middle East courses @ReichmanUni | PhD @UofHaifa | MA @LancasterUni | MSc @UWEB | non-resident scholar @MiddleEastInst| Pentalingual

Journalist, former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper. Author of 'Arabs Without God: Atheism and Freedom of Belief in the Middle East'.

Reporter/Middle East coordinator @ICIJorg. Words in @TheAtlantic. Middle East editor @ForeignPolicy once upon a time. Leak to me: davidkenner@protonmail.com

BBC Middle East Correspondent based in #Beirut. views are mine not the BBC's. Retweet is not an endorsement.