Academic Bullying @academicbullying.bsky.social I'm Baha Abu-Shaqra, PhD (DTI uOttawa), a Canadian‑Egyptian. I blog about how I was mobbed by my PhD thesis committee, how uOttawa is trying to silence me & about academic woes. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dti-techs | https://academicbullying.wordpress.com
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James Ethan Byrne @jamesethanbyrne.bsky.social Director at Curriculum Press 📚 | Global Development & Economics at SOAS 🌳 | The SOAS Spirit Writer 🗞️ | Chatham House Member 🌎 | rambling on substack…
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Tom F. Wright @tomfwright.bsky.social Historian of rhetoric and ideas, oracy, charisma. Head of English Dept, University of Sussex, UK. Runs UKRI Speaking Citizens project
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Stan Page @lkasvgiquweg.bsky.social Human rights defender. Justice seeker. No bystanders—only allies. I fight for the voiceless, the marginalized, and the forgotten. Equality isn't negotiable.
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Festival takes place every single month.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
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Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Asma Abdi 🍉 @drasmaabdi.bsky.social ESRC postdoctoral fellow @the University of Exeter |Writing on Political Economy of Gender, Race, Social Reproduction, Sanctions, War| The Middle East, Iran
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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
عبورة @abbuura.bsky.social Researcher in British Drama after 9/11. Lecturer in English Literature and International Cultural Studies.
أنا من هناك. ولي ذكريات.
I am from there. And I have memories.
~Mahmud Darwish
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
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Abdulla Moaswes @karakmufti.bsky.social Know a few things about global Palestine in Asia and Africa.
Trying to finish a PhD in our glorious Southwestistan (formerly known as Devonshire).
Contact: Abdullasm@proton.me
@camswana.bsky.social @camswana.bsky.social 
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
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Sana Quadri | سناء قادري @sana25.bsky.social Writer, researcher and analyst on the political economy & international relations of the Arab Gulf and South Asia.
✍️ https://www.clippings.me/sanaquadri
📍Dubai | دبي
#FreePalestine #HandsOffSudan #MahsaAmini #StandWithKashmir
Nathan Spannaus @orientastic.bsky.social UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies | UAW 4811 | treasurer, Rasheed Wallace fan club | personal account
Frill @krillfrill.bsky.social He/him
Music producing,gaming and (un)brainrot are cool.
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Razan @femmeexile.bsky.social Recovering revolutionary from Syria, currently teaching queer theory to anti-Trump undergrads.
@ccccccarl.bsky.social @ccccccarl.bsky.social 
Art-Poem-Life (Sanat-Şiir-Yaşam) @artpoemlife.bsky.social Turkish & English
The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
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🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
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Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture // Making complex ideas accessible to all with our free in-person and online events.
📍Brighton, UK
Dierdre Ware, DM @dierdreware.bsky.social Doctoral researcher, author, nonprofit founder, and leadership practitioner. Exploring entrepreneurship, leadership, social impact, and organizational change. Founder of DWFO. Author and lifelong learner.
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Mark Bodenstein @mbodenstein.bsky.social 
Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus @wigefa.bsky.social Wir leben in Zeiten der Faschisierung. Aber wir organisieren Widerspruch:
Gegen Faschismus, für Solidarität und kritisches Denken!
https://wissenschaft-gegen-faschismus.de
SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about-soas/colleges-schools-and-departments/department-anthropology-and-sociology
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
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Caroline Partiot @carolinepartiot.bsky.social Biological anthropologist, postdoc Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, children in the past, Nile valley & feminism, views are my own
Yousra Semmache يسرى @yousrasem.bsky.social Policy expert & systems architect. Founder of Mawjud.org: a movement to exist.
Formerly: shaped aid system reform agendas @ NEAR (Global South network), led advocacy in conflicts, advisor to UN/INGOs.
Algerian-born 🇩🇿 lifelong learner of community power.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.- S Steven Heydemann @stevenhyde.bsky.social Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Hadiqa @hadiqaa.bsky.social history teacher trainee.
Jean-Christophe Peyssard @jcpeyssard.eurosky.social Academic Librarian (CNRS) Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'Homme (MMSH), Aix Marseille University
lui / il / he / him / هو
https://hcommons.org/members/jcpeyssard/
Arab Studies Quarterly @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) was established in 1979 by the late Professors Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. They envisioned the Journal to be a platform for academic research to counter anti-Arab propaganda veiled by academic jargon. 
Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social Writes stuff: Jewishness, Zionism, Race, Pol/Soc Theory, SWANA Jews.
Teaches at QMUL
Book - A Family in Fragments: Race, Zionism and Retrievable Futures (Rutgers University Press, 2027)
truecolors @truecolors96.bsky.social 
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social Pluto Journals is an international, Diamond Open Access, scholarly publisher in the social sciences, it is owned by the not-for-profit Pluto Educational Trust. As such, it plays a unique and valuable role serving the establishment of new fields of critical
Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social Queer sociolinguist and humanist. Based in St Andrews, Scotland until January 2027. Free Palestine and end the genocide.
Robert R. Sauders @sauders.bsky.social Researcher & political anthropologist. Contested spaces, cooperative peacebuilding, the long view.
alongerview.substack.com
Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
Arab Reform Initiative @arabreforminit.bsky.social A Hub for Independent Thought.
Producing knowledge geared towards achieving democratic change in the Arab Region.
مؤسسة بحثية وملتقى الفكر الحر في المنطقة العربية
Mehmet ÖLMEZ @mehmetolmez.bsky.social qayğumuz Türkçe - #Turcology #Türkçe #Turkic #OldTurkic #TurkicEtymology #Etimoloji #IstanbulUniversity #古代回鶻 #Uygurca
Sara Elizabeth Green @saraelizabethgreen.bsky.social Oxford History PhD working on Algeria, Palestine, transnational solidarity and Jewish-Arab postcolonialism 🇩🇿🇵🇸
Dr Tobias Atkinson @tobiasa1994.bsky.social "I said who put all those things in your head?"
Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University Medical School. He/they.
Interested in neurodiversity, disability, gender, sexuality, critical/anti-psychiatry, affect and psychoanalysis.
Shares not endorsements.
Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social Socialist, corpus linguistics researcher at UCL, UCL UCU secretary, NEC member. Personal capacity. Repost ≠ endorsement
Blogs about CL/statistics at https://corplingstats.wordpress.com
Stood for election for UCU VP in 2026, see https://seanwallis.uk
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social PERSONAL GenAI-free ACCOUNT
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#BDS #BoycottAmazon
#AcademicLiteracies
Authored https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243927/
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#OpenAccess #AcademicWriting #CriticalRealism #HigherEducation
صفاء خلف | Safaa Khalaf @safaakhalaf.bsky.social Award-winning Iraqi investigative journalist and independent researcher covering political, environmental, and social issues in Iraq and the Middle East.
www.safaakhalaf.com
Anna T. @annateedot.bsky.social Artist, academic, curator
https://annatee.co.uk
Amira Farhani @amirafr.bsky.social PhD in Postcolonial MENA Literature @UniveristyOfBuckingham | Algerian studying the Global South
Wassim Ghantous @wassim-gh.bsky.social Political Geographer researching Palestine/Israel and their global extensions.
Tampere University, Finalnd. 
Michael Kreutz (Dr. phil.) @michaelkreutz.bsky.social Author. Books: Arabischer Humanismus in der Neuzeit; Das Ende des levantinischen Zeitalters; Zwischen Religion und Politik; The Renaissance of the Levant. Passionate martial artist.
http://www.michaelkreutz.net/
Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social Hi 👋 this is the official page for Politics and International Relations @dmuleicester🎓
Annsophie @naturkundig.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/naturkundig/
UK American Studies Against the Genocide! @uk-usstudies4pal.bsky.social A network of scholars in American Studies working to address the omission of Palestine in our field in the UK academy. We are hosting a symposium on the 9th May 2026 in Central London. Registration now open: https://www.ticketsource.com/uk-am-studies-4-pal
Artemis Papatheodorou @artemis-p.bsky.social Ottoman & Mediterranean history / History of archaeology
Marie Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow; Research project: Modern Mediterranean Archaeological Regimes in a Global Context (MMARe)
Co-editor: Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social Violinist, Prof at Barenboim-Said Akademie, concertmaster of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In the spotlight mainly for speaking out about Gaza since early 2024. Involved in artistic and academic projects amplifying Palestinian voices.
All views my own
Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social 📖 Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin und Publizistin („Medien zwischen Macht und Ohnmacht“)
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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/
Philip Liste @philipliste.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Politics of Human Rights
// „Wir leben in einem Jahrhundert der Gegenaufklärung“ (Ingeborg Maus)
@thirdworldq.bsky.social @thirdworldq.bsky.social TWQ journal publishes leading research in international studies, examining issues, policy & development discourses that affect the Global South.
Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social Editor, @timeshighered.bsky.social- M Mubashir AK @muba-shir.bsky.social Islamic law & legal theory, Muslim world.
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Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
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Maria Marsh @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social Middle Eastern & African studies, Publisher, Cambridge University Press. All views are mine.
Khalid Dader @dader-khalid.bsky.social الأمان مش مكان.. ساق الله الحارة والأيام
Literary translator & PhD researcher at Tampere University (HOMCRI). Researching dwelling practices and everyday life in Gaza.- A @alalamerii.bsky.social @alalamerii.bsky.social
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Eirik Kvindesland @handle.invalid Writer, historian, Post-doctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Formerly at Oxford.
www.kvindesland.net
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
MNG Social Sciences @mngssbooks.bsky.social Featuring the latest social science titles from a range of international publishers. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
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Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed @a-ezz-mohamed.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science @iast.fr, ex-fellow @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social @belfercenter.bsky.social, PhD @columbiauniversity.bsky.social| MENA politics, religion and politics, distributive politics, autocracies, mixed methods
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