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
Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies at UChicago | Scholar | Writer | Literary Critic | Author: "Nostalgic Rebels" (2025); "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" (2023); "Un roman étranger" (2017); | Coeditor : "Abdelkébir Khatibi" (2020)
Muriam Haleh Davis @muriamhalehdavis.bsky.social Historian of 🇩🇿
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.com
Madjid Serrah @madjidserrah.bsky.social Journaliste/صحافي
Algérie الجزائر
Mohamed Dhia Hammami @meddhiah.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University | Wesleyan Alumn | Mixed Methods, MENA Politics
🖥️ mohameddhiahammami.com
Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social Historian.
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.com
لاوان @lauan.bsky.social Doing a PhD on the intellectual history of Marxism in the Middle East / Mahdi Amel & his interlocutors / الطريق
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social Historian of France, Québec, and the francophone world. Intellectual history, print and reading culture, and transnational militancy. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow @ CRIDAQ & UQAM, coordonnatrice @CHCQ. https://sarahkmiles.wordpress.com/.
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
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
J.E. Skeets @jeskeets.bsky.social Co-host of the No Dunks NBA podcast.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Anas Taleb | أنس طالب @enestalip.bsky.social
Aadam Jacobs Collection Project @ajc-project.bsky.social A collective of music enthusiasts working to convert the audio recordings of Aadam Jacobs to digital format and upload to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
Feed to shows - https://bsky.app/profile/ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social Writer, music usually. Substack: https://newmusicoldmusic.substack.com/ Contributing Editor @rollingstone.com @nytimes.com @pitchfork.com @npr.org Books: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire 🔥 Lou Reed: The King of New York 👑 https://linktr.ee/willhermes
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
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social Indigenous, Amazigh scholar.
Arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal @lepmr.bsky.social Le compte officiel de l'arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal. Informe les résident(e)s des actions et des services #LePlateau. Requêtes et plaintes : 311
Lihi Yona @lihiyona.bsky.social Law & Criminology Professor, University of Haifa.
Critical Race Theory, Antidiscrimination, Prisons, Mizrahi Legal Theory (it's a thing).
Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social Nonbinary corporate law professor, mom & scholar of LGBTQ & gender inclusion.🇫🇷🇵🇷🇧🇷 🏳️🌈
Pedro Monaville @pedro-monaville.bsky.social Historian. African Studies. Congo.
Prof at McGill U: https://www.mcgill.ca/history/pedro-monaville
Book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/students-of-the-world
Banner: https://universes.art/en/sharjah-biennial/2023/sharjah-city/calligraphy-square/sammy-baloji
Indian Ocean World Centre @iowcmcgill.bsky.social Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa.
https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
kliked @kliked.bsky.social music is pretty cool
https://archive.org/details/@mr_kliked
https://www.nyctaper.com/author/kliked/
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
New Jewish Narrative @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social We are American Jews, deeply rooted in the story of our people and the struggle for peace and justice.
In our narrative, peace and justice are the birthright of Israelis, of Palestinians, and of all people.
We are New Jewish Narrative!
Hadar Susskind @hadarsusskind.bsky.social President and CEO, New Jewish Narrative. Opinions are mine. I'll share them, but you can't have them. Pronouns he/him
newjewishnarrative.org
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social Reading & writing on early modern Jewish history, women writers, old books & libraries of all ages, collective memory, higher ed. I like to be around people I can learn from, esp students & my kids. Love Irish trad sessions https://orcid.org/0000-0002-388
In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social A Journal of Yiddish Studies 🦚(www.ingeveb.org)
Brent Rosenstein @bmrosenstein.bsky.social PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social senior editor at Guardian US
Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Research immigrant klezmer musician families, compositions & social organizations, Indonesian left-wing history, etc. History MA UBC 2019. Wikipedia editor. Posts about Cdnpoli/Vanpoli
Eirik Kvindesland @kvindesland.net Writer, historian, Post-doctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Formerly at Oxford.
www.kvindesland.net
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social Author, Teacher, Partner, Leader, Dean & CEO
@nuqatar.bsky.social, Founder @iasnuq.bsky.social, Professor
@northwesternu, Board Chair @ACLS1919 Board Member
& @AnnenbergCARGC & @Casar_Aub
agnsunt @agnsunt.bsky.social Cultures sonores, Paris, Massif central, XIX-XXe s, diffusion musique, danse, médias, histoire soc. et pol. Doctorante @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social @chs-umr8058.bsky.social
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.
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
Eric J. Schmidt @ejschmidt.bsky.social ethnomusicologist at Babson College . researching music economies in NW Africa (Sahel/Sahara) . Californian survivor of the New England & North Texas taco dystopiae
The Living Arabic Project @livingarabic.bsky.social Arabic nerd who writes dictionaries for dialects and al-Fusha. Check it out: http://livingarabic.com. Support the data madness on Patreon: http://patreon.com/livingarabic
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
David Wacks @davidwacks.bsky.social Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. Medieval Iberian and Sephardic literature and culture. https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/
Alex Russo @alexrusso.bsky.social Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to
@LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
Bodega Pop @bodegapop.bsky.social Poet, cartoonist, music blogger, host of Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel, PhD @profjoa.bsky.social
Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, Africa, genocide, postcolonial memory; Prof Global History
Founding president INoGS. Personal views
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive!
Emmanuel Balogun @eabalogun.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Political Science and Director of International Affairs at Skidmore College | Visiting Fellow-Hoover Institution | Author: Region-Building in West Africa | Only willing to argue about the Celtics and Golden Era Hip-Hop. | Emmanuelbalogun.org
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
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.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Malika Rahal @malikarahal.bsky.social Historienne, directrice de l'Institut d'histoire du temps présent.
Historian, director of the Institute for Present Time history (Paris)
مؤرخة، مديرة مركز تاريخ الزمن الراهن
Ahlam Chemlali @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social Co-Director & Postdoctoral Fellow | Migration, violence and confinement between North Africa and the Mediterranean borderlands
@jduhamel04.bsky.social @jduhamel04.bsky.social
Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social Bilingual Canadian association founded in 1922 to promote historical research | Association canadienne bilingue fondée en 1922 pour promouvoir la recherche historique https://cha-shc.ca/ | https://cha-shc.ca/fr/
Daniel Amir @danamir.bsky.social Londoner in search of Gondi
'Jewish Iran: Modern Nationalism in Print' (Stanford) out July 2026
Marie Cronqvist @atommarie.bsky.social Media history, Cold War culture, transnational broadcasting, sound studies, history of preparedness and civil protection. Prof of Modern History at Linköping University. Coordinator of EMHIS. 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺
Winkie Williamson @palacestories.bsky.social Posting #OTD stories about WW2 as it affects the d'Erlangers at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia. Currently September 1943. Italy has signed the armistice. The Allies have landed in mainland Italy.
Nadia Kiwan @nadiakiwan.bsky.social Francophone Studies; Decolonial Theory; Migration and Critical Border Studies - University of Aberdeen
Sarah Rocheville @sarah-rocheville.bsky.social Littérature, arts, interdisciplinarité.
Professeure à Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada). Écrivaine / Full professor@USherbrooke. Writer.
Tikun Olam @richards1052.bsky.social Journalist-activist. Anti-Zionist Jew. From the river to sea. NO personal solicitations. NO follows from anyone soliciting.
@thenewarab.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social
Blog: https://richardsilverstein.com
https://paypal.me/richards1052
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
Arash Davari @arashdavar.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Political Theory, Revolution, Iran
Amelia Glaser @aglaser.bsky.social Ukrainian/Yiddish/Russian literature; ocean swimmer; translator; author Songs in Dark Times, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
Jérémy Guedj @guedjeremy.bsky.social Historien, MCF à l’Université Côte-d’Azur, membre du CMMC, rédacteur en chef des Cahiers de la Méditerranée. Également à la revue Parlement(s), à la REMI et à l’APHG de Nice.
Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social Historian of media and communication 1900-1945 - Mum of 4 - Fellow, Royal Historical Society - Co-editor, Media History - Part-time lecturer, University of Bremen
Website: https://stephanieseul.com/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-1366
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Dr Uta Rautenberg @utarautenberg.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Author of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social Historian of autism and pop music in France (in no particular order), academic administrator trying to serve students at IU Northwest, always ready for karaoke.
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold (sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/city-black-gold) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
Dr Ladan Rahbari @ladanrahbari.bsky.social Associate prof in Political Sociology UvAmsterdam #MigrantAcademics #media #migration #nationalism #Islam #Iran #diaspora #gender Former FWO fellow, member@AmsterdamYoungAcademy "Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe"
Anne de Jong @anne-dejong.bsky.social Associate Professor Anthropology| University of Amsterdam| Palestine-Israel| Power & resistance | violence & nonviolence | justice & human rights|
Association for Jewish Studies @jewishstudies.bsky.social The AJS is a learned society whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public.
Stanford Jewish Studies @stanfordtaube.bsky.social The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford offers an interdisciplinary program for the study & understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics & history.
Sarah Benichou @sarahbenichou82.bsky.social Journaliste en bande organisée @collectifyoupress.bsky.social & @ajaracisees.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/sarah.benichou.youpress
Gianni Sievers @giannisievers.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, Islam & the performing arts in South Asia & beyond | Musician | Postdoc @ Utrecht University | PhD @ Penn
Natacha Danon @natachadanon.bsky.social Damascus-based journalist telling Syrian stories with eyes on Palestine | Bylines in Syria Direct, New Lines Magazine, Middle East Eye & The New Arab
Jeff @1000timesjeff.bsky.social Writer, editor treblezine.com. RVA
Joanna Sliwa @joannasliwa24.bsky.social Historian, Holocaust & Jewish history. Book author, co-author, co-editor: Jewish Childhood in Kraków | Counterfeit Countess | Older Jews and the Holocaust. Administers academic programs at a Jewish NGO. www.counterfeitcountess.com and www.joannasliwa.com
Rachel Pistol @drpistol.bsky.social Director of the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK) @ehri-uk.bsky.social at @historyatsoton.bsky.social. Digital historian of Second World War internment in the UK & USA and refugee history. Honorary Historian at World Jewish Relief
Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social Historian, writer, and teacher of early American gender, culture, & politics; Assoc. Prof; Public Historian; Author of FIRST FAMILY (Hanover Square) & FOUNDING FRIENDSHIPS(OUP)
cassandragoodhistorian.com | same handle on insta & Mastodon
J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.
https://jonathanbogart.net
Gramophoney Baloney on KPOO @gramophoneybaloney.bsky.social weekly program on KPOO San Francisco specializing in old recordings from 1950 or earlier - presented by DJ McSchmormac #DeletedTwitter
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Karim Hammou @karimhammou.bsky.social http://surunsonrap.hypotheses.org
https://mastodon.social/@surunsonrap
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Deborah Starr @debastarr.bsky.social
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Liz Matsushita @lamats.bsky.social Historian of North Africa and the Middle East, interested in music, culture, (post)colonialism, race, the desert 🌵 Californian millennial Yonsei in Oregon 🌲
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.