Kevan Harris @kevanharris.bsky.social Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists / UCLA Iranian Diaspora Dashboard https://iraniandiaspora.github.io/
Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social Political Violence • Sahel Politics • Editorial Board of afriquexxi.info • Libération (Chroniques du Sahel) https://www.liberation.fr/auteur/yvan-guichaoua/ • Public appearances and interventions in media: https://bit.ly/2J4mT5I • FR & ENG
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social Linguist / syntactician / Africanist
FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
Pratima @ismipratima.bsky.social historian | indian ocean & geniza | amateur potter
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social Popping by from the Global South (Twitter) checking on the Global North (BlueSky)
[di tanah² adat orang Temuan, Ohlone & Lenape serentak]
Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social assoc. prof. linguistics @ucalgary.bsky.social
Alexander Savelyev @santaar-s.bsky.social Comparative-historical & areal linguistics; ethnic history, toponymy, epigraphy.
The Volga-Kama region, Southern Siberia, and whatever lies in between.
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social Qing historian, résidant à Montréal
jacinto pariente @jacinto.bsky.social Traductor. Iranología. Islam. 
Goots (ready for Fall 🍁) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social Attempting to exist
Aromantic, asexual, and trans (they/them)
Jewish 🤙
I learn Azerbaijani and Uzbek
I have depression+
Cambridge, MA = best city in the world
TRANSLAPT @translapt.bsky.social TRANSLation: Arabic – Persian – Turkish
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group (2022–2028)
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/
https://www.facebook.com/translapt
https://x.com/translapt
Jonas Sibony @jonas-sibony.bsky.social Arabic dialects of Moroccan Jews, Arabic dialectology, Hebrew, Semitic Linguistics
Sorbonne Université
Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota @umn-rels.bsky.social Investigating the role of religion in society, culture, and individual experience. Preparing students for life in a religiously diverse world.
Newsletter 📩
https://mailchi.mp/34f63507040a/religious-studies-newsletter-sign-up
Arezou Azad @arezouazad.bsky.social Prof & researcher, INALCO & Oxford, history, Middle East & Afghanistan, former UN staffer
Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures.
www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
Fathel @fath0039.bsky.social 
Hilde Gunnink @hildegunnink.bsky.social Linguist, focusing on African languages. FWO postdoctoral researcher @UGent || Linguistics teacher @Leiden
[ˈhɪlˠdə ˈχønɪŋk]
Ḥamid Ouyachi @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social word matters, things related to language (focus on Moroccan Tamazight + Tashlḥiyt) translation, poetry, etc.
words in: Rusted Radishes, Tamazgha Studies Journal, Words Without Borders, etc.
blog @ http://tagwrsa.blogspot.com
ariel @toomuchpiano.bsky.social languages and cultures of the Mediterranean, the Islamicate world and Latin America. she/her
Adam Mahler @lusomedieval.bsky.social to laughen, nat for to wepen // medieval and modern Iberia // klarman fellow @ cornell // between lisbon & non-homeric ithaca // adammahler.net
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Philip Grant @philipgrant.bsky.social Anthropologist, historian, translator.
See: Javad Tabatabai, Ibn Khaldun & the Social Sciences.
Rebels & Rulers in the Early Islamicate World ed. H. Hagemann & A. Grant.
Editorial board, Encyclopædia Iranica. Board member, The Markaz Review.
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
A-100 gecs @pinstripebungle.bsky.social 
Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @truthout.org. Past lives @aljazeera.com. East coaster in Ann Arbor. Internationalist. Any pronouns.
south·lits @southlits.bsky.social A network for the literary Global South ·
Bringing readers, writers, publishers, academics, and institutions in conversation ·
By @jshelat1.bsky.social and @dissentum.bsky.social
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social Hey! We're The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota, a 501c3 working on making Minnesota a place where every person everywhere can easily walk, bike, and roll. All Ages, All Abilities.
Learn more at BikeMN.org
MPR News @mprnews.org Minnesota news. Independent + nonprofit. Free thanks to members. Listen on air, read online or follow here ❤️
📷: The Minnesota Capitol building just after sunset on a spring evening, by Brian Bakst | MPR News.
taylr @taylordahlin.com local duckling with internet access
📍 minneapolis MN
Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order Recipient. Executive VP @quincyinst. Author of Losing an Enemy, Single Roll of the Dice & Treacherous Alliance. Views are my own.
Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social Writer, Ph.D. student in History and Jewish Studies at New York University. Interested in modern political history, labor, migration, diaspora, and religion.
Olmo Gölz @olmo-goelz.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies | University of Freiburg
Maxim Romanov @maximromanov.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader (“The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” /EIS1600/), Uni Hamburg
Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social BBC New Generation Thinker. Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature @glasgow.ac.uk. Occasional interpreter. Hopeful Achaemenid queen. 👑🗡️🔥
Website: www.juliacaterinahartley.com
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.- L Haidar Abboud @lawzinaj.bsky.social This account is for my linguistics hobby. I'm interested in Semitic languages (Arabic dialectology, Aramaic (Classical Syriac or modern dialects), Hebrew).
Narges Bajoghli @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social Writer. Scholar. Educator.
New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social Economist, researcher, writer etc • Int'l & European political economy, geoeconomics, climate, history • 1/3 of 'Eurotrash' and host of 'States and Markets', writing a book on trade
بهارآلود @doymaj.bsky.social از چاقِ من تا چاقِ تو راهی بهجز تردید نیست
Thomas A. Carlson @medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society.
https://www.thomasacarlson.com/
https://medievalmideast.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279
he/ܗܘ/هو
Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, Abbasids, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Assoc. Prof. at UCalgary
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MusheghAsatryan
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350985858
@faisaldevji.bsky.social @faisaldevji.bsky.social 
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
✅ startribune.com/subscribe
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Nick Harper, he/him @nharper.bsky.social Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's or anybody else’s. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. I’m on Signal, DM me for my handle.
Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social Probably on my bike.
Visit Lake Street @visitlakestreet.com You already love Lake Street, but let us tell you why it's even better than you thought! #Lakeof10KLands #VisitLakeStreet #LakeStreetLift
The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social A celebration of the quirks of South Minneapolis direct from the boost mobile store.
Transit enthusiast, shitty graphic design fan, militant pedestrian
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Aisha Chughtai @aishaforward10.com renter, former union organizer, eldest daughter to a Muslim immigrant family • socialist • representing Ward 10 on the Minneapolis City Council • she/her
Jonathan AC Brown @jonathanacbrown.bsky.social https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
https://georgetown.academia.edu/JonathanACBrown
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin.bsky.social One half of the Courses For Philologists + Philologists' Corner Team.
Click the link to learn more about + sign up for fall language classes:
https://forms.gle/DhjZsVh9myiofmFu9
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
@aliterrenoire.bsky.social @aliterrenoire.bsky.social 
Arabic Proverbs @arabicproverbs.bsky.social Currently reading Recent Proverbs (الأمثال المولدة), Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Khwārazmī (d. 993), ed. Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Aʿrajī
by Nathaniel Miller (PhD Arabic Literature), author of The Emergence of Arabic Poetry (Penn Press, 2024).
Manata Hashemi @manatahashemi.bsky.social sociologist | urban ethnographer | professor
✍🏽 Coming of Age in Iran
manatahashemi.com
Kamal Gasimov @orientalistica.bsky.social Islamic intellectual history; sufism and law; state and religion in post-soviet Eurasia; teaching Arabic as a second language
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social Mpls Ped/Bike Coordinator. Cold weather apologist. Sports appreciator. Cookie enthusiast. State capacity booster. Opinions do not represent those of the City.
@pinnerup.bsky.social @pinnerup.bsky.social Religionshistoriker, nørd og amatørlingvist. Særlige interesser: semitisk og klassisk filologi, oldtidens nærorient, indoeuropæistik, fonologi og sproghistorie.
/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
ਅਕਸ਼ਜ Akshaj, (they/he/elle/él) @cevahirulebrar.bsky.social DPhil-ing Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford (MPhil Islamic Art '25)
Ottomans, Uzbeks and everything in between.
Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Scholar, Khalili Research Centre+New College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Foaad Khosmood @foaad.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Imperial College |
foaad.net
Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile- S Sertaç @sertacyildiz.bsky.social
Anny Gaul @annygaul.bsky.social Author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (2025) 🍅 Ceasefire + arms embargo now 🍉 Views my own 🍅 https://bio.site/annygaul
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social 
Twin Cities DSA 🌹 @twincitiesdsa.org Multi-Racial Working-Class Power Building | The Twin Cities chapter of Democratic Socialists of America | More at http://tcdsa.org
פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social Personal account of @pymundgenealogy.com
🟣 𐃆
גירא בעינא דשטנא
📍 Hamilton, ON (#HamOnt), Canada
🔗: pymundgenealogy.com
History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social H&T is an international journal devoted to the theory of history and philosophy of history. Est. 1960, located
at Wesleyan University, published by Wiley.
Our website: https://historyandtheory.org/
Brenna Artinger @brennaartinger.bsky.social Buddhist Studies person, MPhil from Oxford (2020), research is on Buddhist extremism/nationalism and Pāli/Theravāda stuff. 📍: Minneapolis
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Yoshie Furuhashi @yoshiefuruhashi.bsky.social 
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
shiraz @alisyedshiraz.bsky.social vap @brown.edu
cover: Urak Valley, outskirts of Quetta
Jason McGrath @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social he/him, Redneck Riviera permanent exile, Corcoran cat daddy, U Asianist & film nerd, Lynx devotee, radical left lunatic
Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
@limonr.bsky.social @limonr.bsky.social 
Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social Emeritus Professor @ SOAS, University of London.
Multilingual account, mainly about my publications and activities. More postings on X @gilbertachcar
Website: https://gilbert-achcar.net/
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester. 
U of Minnesota Twin Cities AAUP @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the Twin Cities campuses of the University of Minnesota. Find us on the web @ https://www.umn-tc-aaup.org
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Joshua Leifer @joshualeifer.bsky.social Journalist. Author of TABLETS SHATTERED.
Joseph J. Kaminski @profjkaminski.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of Pol. Sci. and IR, International University of Sarajevo and Research Associate & Mentorship Program Coordinator at The Ummatics Institute.