Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social We are a leading centre for primary care research and teaching based at the University of Bristol, UK. We are one of nine centres that form the @nihrspcr.bsky.social. Visit: www.bristol.ac.uk/capc- H @hebaabdelgawad.bsky.social @hebaabdelgawad.bsky.social
Stephen Kay @stephenkay.bsky.social Archaeology Manager, British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org
Honorary Secretary @archprospection.bsky.social
FSA FRHistS
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-3377
White Levy Program for Archaeological Publications @whitelevyprogram.bsky.social The Program supports research on terminated and unpublished archaeological field work from significant sites from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Since its inception in 1997, more than 20 million dollars in grants have been awarded to over 350 scholars.
Fiona Pichon @fionapichon.bsky.social PhD, Archaeologist: Prehistory, SW Asia, Lithic tools, Use-wear, Networks 🧙♀️🏊♀️🤸♀️
Researcher looking for a job and new opportunities 🤹♀️
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).
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Würzburg @anestudieswue.bsky.social Ancient Near Eastern Studies @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social │ #Assyriology and Near Eastern #Archaeology 🏺
MAST Archaeology @mastarchaeology.bsky.social We are leaders in UK maritime heritage. Maritime archaeological projects, management & advocacy. Co-creators of Maritime Observatory, protecting heritage.
Daisy Brunt @daisybrunt.bsky.social Mesopotamian Archaeologist
Mapping Archaeological Heritage South Asia Project @University of Cambridge
@mahsa-project.bsky.social
British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social The BSR is an interdisciplinary research institute in Rome for the arts, humanities and social sciences
The Kites In Context Archaeological Project @kitesincontext.bsky.social An NSF-funded archaeological research project studying ancient animal traps (known as “desert kites”) in eastern Jordan.
Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social 🦴 Senior lecturer @ARU, Bioarchaeologist, Roman and Medieval periods, Community archaeology, Ancient Nubia, 💀 🦷 all things bone related 😜 Chair Cifa Osteo group
British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies (BILNAS) @bilnas.bsky.social We are a research institute and membership body sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social. We support scholars in Libya and the northern African region. Come visit our website at bilnas.org - B @bsathens.bsky.social @bsathens.bsky.social
CARC @carcoxford.bsky.social Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre, home of the Beazley Archive, is a catalyst for the study of Greek and Roman art. www.carc.ox.ac.uk
Eleonora Angella @elea3.bsky.social Modern Historian, Post-Doc @ Università di Pavia. 19th Century | Italians of Egypt | Consular History | Migration Studies | Gender History.
My book: https://unipapress.com/book/italiani-al-cairo-consoli-giurisdizione-e-societa-1861-1911/
Juliet Samson-Conlon @julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social Childhood, material culture, the Roman Near East. Researching the archaeology of Roman childhood at Dura-Europos. PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London. Research funded by AHRC
Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) @fimeinstitute.bsky.social FIME is an academic institute that conducts research on the classical and contemporary languages, cultures, religions, and societies of the Middle East. https://www.fime.fi/
Rea Vogt @reapfel.bsky.social PhD candidate @unibern, particularly interested in #migrationhistory and returning migrants introducing #yerbamate to French Mandate Lebanon 🧉
Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social Research MA at Leiden University; working on social networks and book circulation in the late Ottoman Empire
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Jeremy Pressman @djpressman.bsky.social US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests in US, politics
(he/him)
Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social Professor of Classics and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Reading. The cat's name is Sol.
Anne de Jong @anne-dejong.bsky.social Associate Professor Anthropology| University of Amsterdam| Palestine-Israel| Power & resistance | violence & nonviolence | justice & human rights|
Khatchig Mouradian @khatchig.bsky.social 
Nora Jaber @norajaber.bsky.social Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World. University of Edinburgh. Critical approaches to international law & human rights, Islamic law, feminist theory.
Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current book project: Palestinians and the New Left in West Germany, 1950s-1980s
Allison L. Bennett @taureanhistorian.bsky.social •PhD in History researching British and Anzac sexual encounters in First World War Macedonia and the Middle East.
•PhD Rep, co-membership secretary @fwwsoc.bsky.social
📍 Newfoundland and Labrador
Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
Ryan Lynch @ryanjosephlynch.com Professor of Islamic History @ The Citadel. Work on the Islamic state throughout history. Love tech + games + punk rock. Writing a book about history in games. Views my own. ryanjosephlynch.com
Jay Prosser @jaydprosser.bsky.social Prof Humanities @universityofleeds. Personal and cultural stories to head off divisive times. Mixed race, Asian Jewish, trans veteran. Most recent: Loving Strangers. Working on: Holocaust Torah scroll shoe soles from Salonika. https://www.jayprosser.com
Lauren Brand @laurenbrand.bsky.social Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review. 📚 Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast.
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH).
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity.
Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie |
👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10.
Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you
christophersrose.com
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
Bassam Haddad @4bassam.bsky.social Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Kimberly Katz @kbkatz0710.bsky.social Historian, Middle East, Palestine, Jordan, Human Rights
Waleed Hazbun @whazbun.bsky.social IR and Middle East Studies Prof. at the University of Alabama. Mid East & East Med geopolitics, US foreign policy, Tourism & ✈️ Visiting Scholar, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2024-25).
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
Avital Livny @avitallivny.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Pol Science @ Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethnicity & religion; Turkey & Middle East; measurement
More here: www.alivny.com
Crystal A. Ennis @crystalennis.bsky.social academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy
🇨🇦🇴🇲🇳🇱
https://www.crystalennis.com/
Lama Mourad @lmourad.bsky.social Assistant Professor @CU_NPSIA
| migration, local governance, Middle East politics, Lebanon, research ethics | #FirstGen | she/her | Personal account & opinions
Scott Williamson @scottrw630.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism, migration, and the Middle East. https://www.scott-williamson.com
Christiana Parreira @cmparreira.bsky.social political scientist • assistant professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) • PhD Stanford • governance and elections in the Middle East
📍 geneva • beirut 🔗 christianaparreira.com
Daniel Tavana @danieltavana.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, Penn State. I work on elections, identity, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa.
danieltavana.com
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.
Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, etc.
Book
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/disciplining-terror-how-experts-invented-terrorism
Anne Kirstine Rønn @annekirstineronn.bsky.social 💼 Assistant Professor at Political Science, Aarhus University
🔍 International Relations | Middle East | social movements | sectarianism | labour | diaspora | focus on 🇱🇧, 🇮🇶 and 🇪🇺.
Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social Researcher @IIR_Prague; fellow @prcprague; Lebanon, Syria, critical peace and security studies, security narratives, social theory
Peter Krause @peterkrause.bsky.social Associate Professor at Boston College, Research Affiliate at MIT Security Studies Program, Middle East politics, civil war and political violence, nationalism, rebels and regime change, peace-building, and Boston www.peterjpkrause.com
Rana B. Khoury @rbkhoury.bsky.social assistant prof of political science at Illinois researching wartime activism, displacement, humanitarianism, and all things Syria. mama to the greatest second grader. www.ranakhoury.com
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
Judith Hoppermann @jhoppermann.bsky.social PhD Candidate @soasuni.bsky.social | Forced Migration & IR in MENA | Prev. @uni-freiburg.de
Malaka Shwaikh @mshwaikh.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews where I research prisons, hunger strikes, limits of resilience, and decoloniality. Talk with me about sunsets and hikes.
Filippo Dionigi @filippodionigi.bsky.social Senior lecturer of international relations at Bristol University.
IR theory and Middle East politics: f.dionigi@bristol.ac.uk.
https://t.co/CGcAdQY3Dz
Ryan Swan ريان سوان @ryanswan.bsky.social PhD candidate @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
Simon Mabon @profmabon.bsky.social Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD.
Schism (Yale University Press)
The Struggle for Supremacy (Cambridge University Press)
Houses built on sand (Manchester University Press)
Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
May Darwich @maydarwich.bsky.social Associate Professor, IR of the Middle East, University of Birmingham Author of Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (CUP).
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies @sfps.bsky.social The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies promotes research on the Francophone world. Links & RTs ≠ endorsements.
Website: https://sfps.org.uk/
Upcoming Conference "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives": https://sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-events/
M.B. Abu Salih @mbabusalih.bsky.social Researcher ▪ Comparative Politics - Democracy/Democratization ▪ Former lecturer at the University of Aleppo ▪ abusalih.com
Curtis Ryan @curtisryan.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics.
Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.
Dara Conduit @daraconduit.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne | Digital Authoritarianism | Syria | Iran | Author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria | She/Her
Emily K. M. Scott @emilykmscott.bsky.social Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org
Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
SEPAD @sepad.bsky.social SEPAD is an international research network and collaborative project based at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute, led by Professor Simon Mabon and Dr Edward Wastnidge. www.sepad.org.uk
UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social UCL Press is the first fully #openaccess #universitypress in the UK. We are UCL's #openaccess publishing house. Reposting or liking ≠ endorsement.
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Jillian Schwedler @jillianschwedler.bsky.social Scholar, mother, dancer, boxer, home chef, and lover of cocktails, hard core, and dark chocolate; Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Middle East politics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
POMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)
Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social Research Professor at PRIO.
Mostly Palestine, Israel, US related stuff.
Mostly in English, sometimes in Norwegian.
Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social 
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
Nir Arielli @nirarielli.bsky.social Historian of Europe and the Middle East, writing about people and water. I work at @universityofleeds.bsky.social 
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg @menalibahs.bsky.social Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
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
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
Ted Swedenburg @tsweden.bsky.social My animal companions are Benji (cat) and Chester (dog)
Mattin Biglari @mattinbiglari.bsky.social Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History at the University of Bristol. Oil and environmental justice; decolonisation; labour; infrastructure; technopolitics; STS; energy humanities
Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social 
Kareem Rabie @kareemrabie.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
https://www.kareemrabie.com
https://www.dukeupress.edu/palestine-is-throwing-a-party-and-the-whole-world-is-invited
William Lafi Youmans @willyou.bsky.social Professor and filmmaker. Wrote 'An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America.' #footie #afc
Elliott Colla @abumrouj.bsky.social المخوزق يشتم السلطان
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social Historian of awful things at Trinity College Dublin
Author of Famine Worlds
WWI, Lebanon, Famine and Disaster History