Jeff Halper @jeffhalper.bsky.social Israeli anthropologist, Director of ICAHD and a founding member of the One Democratic State campaign. Jeff’s latest book is Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: The Case for One Democratic State. Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
Leiden University Press @leidenup.bsky.social Leiden University Press is an academic publisher of books - print and digital - in the humanities and social sciences
Mekhola Gomes @oldthingsarefun.bsky.social medieval historian of south and southeast asia (epigraphy nerd)| assistant professor @ amherst college | loves sci fi
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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Maribel Fierro @mifierro.bsky.social Research Professor Arabic and Islamic Studies. CSIC
Jonathan AC Brown @jonathanacbrown.bsky.social https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
https://georgetown.academia.edu/JonathanACBrown
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
lyra tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, history of medicine, labor history, gender. Cairo Geniza fangirl.
(Blocks are not personal)
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James Reilly @jimr54.bsky.social Retired historian, University of Toronto
The IASA @iasarabia.bsky.social The International Association for the Study of Arabia and home of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com Non-partisan analysis featuring the trusted voices of Amy Walter, David Wasserman, Carrie Dann, Jessica Taylor, and Erin Covey. The right analysis for getting it right. Learn more: cookpolitical.com/subscribe
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association @jaema.bsky.social JAEMA is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal specialising in the history of the early medieval period - from late antiquity to the early eleventh century.
https://aema.org.au/journal/
Nilo Tabrizy @ntabrizy.bsky.social Visual Forensics at The Washington Post | Writing a book on Iran for Pantheon Books (US) & Atlantic Books (UK) | یاشاسین تبریز
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Michael Battalia @battalia.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Princeton University and Visiting Student at École nationale supérieure (Paris). Writing a dissertation on “Modern Arab Intellectuals and the Making of Modern Saudi Arabia, 1919-1939”
David Staniunas @boxreceiver.bsky.social archivist at PresbyHistory, menasky-adjacent, obligated to say positions are mine, not PC(USA)'s
Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social Part of Lund University, Sweden.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
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/
Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.
luai allarakia @luaialla.bsky.social Poli Sci PhD. Kuwaiti National Assembly - Saudi Shura Council . دكتور في العلوم السياسية
Repekka @repekka.bsky.social phd/assyriology/Helsinki (for now). a big fan of rodents and energy drinks
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social Free Palestine. No Zionists. No antisemitism. Millennial. Observer46664.86 on Signal, localobserver86 on Discord, and localobserver86 @ gmail. Not a serious or a professional account. She/her/hers
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Jan Jelinowski @janjelinowski.bsky.social PhD candidate in Medieval History, working on history writing in the Mongol Empire. A quantitative fiddler and structure enthousiast.
@ Université de Strasbourg and Polish Academy of Sciences. 
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
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Narges Bajoghli @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social Writer. Scholar. Educator.
Alison Dagnes @alidagnes.bsky.social Poli Sci Professor, lover of words, admirer of writers, author of “Super Mad at Everything All the Time,” and the horse is back in the hospital. Bad but enthusiastic dancer.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@joelwing.bsky.social @joelwing.bsky.social 
Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/vevian_zaki1/index.html
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
Al-MONITOR @almonitor.bsky.social Independent and trusted coverage of the Middle East, providing unique insight on the trends & events shaping the region from top journalists in the region
Victor McFarland @vmcfarland.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Missouri. Studying energy history and U.S. foreign relations.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Liz Dent @lizydent.bsky.social Senior Fellow @WashInstitute primarily covering U.S. foreign and defense policy towards the Gulf | Former DoD and State | @MiamiUniversity & @AU_SIS alum
Karim El Taki @karimeltaki.bsky.social International order, ignorance, recognition, Middle East, and other cool stuff
karimeltaki.com
Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷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
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social 
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.- M Mubashir AK @muba-shir.bsky.social Islamic law & legal theory, Muslim world.
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
Ryan Saputo @ryansaputo.bsky.social History Ph.D. student at UCLA studying usurpation, civil wars, political violence, and political legitimacy in the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity
https://history.ucla.edu/person/ryan-saputo/
لاوان @lauan.bsky.social Doing a PhD on the intellectual history of Marxism in the Middle East / Mahdi Amel & his interlocutors / الطريق
Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
All views strictly my own.
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Jörg Matthias Determann @determann.bsky.social Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Author of “Teaching Science Through Science Fiction” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy.” https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Asian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Yonatan Adler @yonatan.bsky.social Archaeology and Early Judaism
Associate Professor
@arieluniversity
Author of:
The Origins of Judaism (Yale 2022)
Between Yahwism and Judaism (Cambridge 2025)
DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by
@uniofleicester
https://www.dosseproject.com
MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social Your Middle East virtual library. Posts of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialisedinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Our homepage: https://www.menalib.de/
Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social MENA energy analyst | American abroad | author of The Algerian Dream, translator of Inside the Battle of Algiers
The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social Former blue collar Pennsylvania boy. Interdisciplinary scholar and PhD student in Canada. I study the creation and consumption of conflict information in digital media.
thetattooedhistorian.com- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Kate Bunn @katebunn.bsky.social Reporter for online newspaper, Maghrebi.org, focusing on news from the Sahel region.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
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.
Mohamed Elnakep @mohamedelnakep.bsky.social
lecture of Islamic history, Mansoura University. PhD in Imāmī Shīʿīs at Universität (Göttingen, Hamburg). Member of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO).
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent at NOTUS // CROSSING THE RED LINE on Biden/Gaza (W. W. Norton, fall 2026) // he/him
Say hi: akbar.58 on Signal or akbarshahidahmed@notus.com
Muḥammad al-Raḥbī | مُحمد الرحبي @mohammed.afrabia.om باحث في تاريخ عُمان | أفرابيا | غرب المحيط الهندي Researcher | Publisher | Oman I Afrabia | West Indian Ocean History
Ahmed Al Omran @alomran.me Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
Chris Blanchard @cmblanchard.bsky.social Citizen. MENA Analyst on a Hill. Objectively speaking. Views expressed are my own.
Emile Hokayem اميل الحكيّم @emile-hokayem.bsky.social Geopolitics and Middle East at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should express it.
LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Middle East Council on Global Affairs @mecouncil.bsky.social An independent policy research institution bridging MENA & the world | Join our Newsletter: https://mecouncil.org/newsletter/
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Herman Wang @hermstheword.bsky.social Associate news director, EMEA upstream oil, for S&P Global Commodity Insights. OPEC and Middle East watcher, London-based American expat, Leyton Orient follower. Views are my own, especially the good ones
Suzanne DiMaggio @suzannedimaggio.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
https://carnegieendowment.org/people/suzanne-dimaggio?lang=en
Oren Kessler @orenkessler.bsky.social Author, “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict,” winner of the Sami Rohr Prize and a Wall Street Journal best book of the year. TLV/DC.
Nasef @theegyptianhulk.bsky.social Host of @TahrirPodcast—Egypt & Middle East affairs. Research & Editorial @APSNtweets/@alSalonReviews. @AUC & @UNC Alum.
Yemeni Fatima @yemenifatima.bsky.social Analyst focused on #Yemen, #Iran, #Houthis, Gulf, with a focus on geopolitics and Shia transnational networks. Interested in understanding how narratives fuel conflict, sustain power, and shape the regional order. Author of The Ideology Machine on Substack
Robin Mills @robinmills.bsky.social Middle East energy guru. CEO of Qamar Energy, fellow Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, author 'The Myth of the Oil Crisis' & 'Capturing Carbon'; columnist The National, weekly newsletter https://www.thenationalnews.com/newsletters/energy-this-week
Ali Alfoneh @alfoneh.bsky.social Author of "Iran Unveiled" (2013) & "Political Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (2020): #Iran, #Civil-Military-Relations, #IRGC, #QF, in 🇺🇸Persian🇩🇰
AGSI @gulfstatesinst.bsky.social The Arab Gulf States Institute is an independent, nonprofit institution providing expert research and analysis of the Gulf Arab states.
https://agsi.org/
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
AliVaez.bsky.social @alivaez.bsky.social Director of #Iran Project & Senior Advisor @CrisisGroup; Adjunct Prof @Georgetown; Fellow @FPI_SAIS; Ex @UNDPPA @FAScientists @Harvard
Louise Rayne @louiserayne.bsky.social Newcastle University Academic Track (NUACT) Fellow. Archaeologist and remote sensing specialist. Working on ways to use Earth observation to model past sustainable landscapes (agriculture, water management).
Peter J Brown @peterjbrown.bsky.social Honorary Fellow @arcdurham.bsky.social | Landscape archaeology of medieval Eurasia | Water Management | Islamic Archaeology | Environmental History
https://p-j-brown.github.io
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies @arabcenter-en.bsky.social The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies is an independent research institute and think tank for the study of history and social sciences, with particular emphasis on the applied social sciences.
Fahad Ahmad Bishara @bishara.bsky.social Indian Ocean historian / dad / not a ton else.
The Gulf Nashra @gulfnashra.bsky.social Stay informed with Gulf news, opinion trends, analytical insights, and highlights on the region’s politics, culture, and business.
https://www.gulfnashra.com/
MESA Global Academy @mesaglobalacademy.bsky.social MESA Global Academy, a partnership between the Middle East Studies Association and CUNY, supports displaced scholars and aims to sustain research collaborations and knowledge production.
Middle East Policy Council @mideastpolicy.bsky.social MEPC provides credible, comprehensive information & analysis on political, economic, and cultural issues pertaining to U.S.-Middle East relations.
mepc.org
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
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org