Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Chakib Ararou @chararou.bsky.social Chercheur en littérature arabe moderne 🔎
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Ann Morgan @annmorgan.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author, literary activist, podcaster and blogger who read the world
Oxford Translates @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social Literary Translation Summer School, online, 6 - 10 July 2026
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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social Translation-focused research group and roaming library, focused on activities around the creative and intellectual practices of translation 📚
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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
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Ben Faccini @benfaccini.bsky.social Writing, translating, teaching, editing, reading.
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
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Holly Langstaff @hollylangstaff.bsky.social Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford.
I run the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and Oxford Translates Summer School.
Institut français du Royaume-Uni @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social Promoting French language & culture, the French Institute in London comprises a Language Centre, Ciné Lumière I & II, a multi-media library and a cafe-restaurant.
Librería Balqís @libreriabalqis.bsky.social Librería especializada en Oriente Próximo y África.También sala de exposiciones de la Galería Sura.
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Seminary Co-op Bookstores & 57th Street Books @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social The Seminary Co-op & sister store 57th Street Books are valued places of discovery and cultural institutions. Known for our academic books and our award winning children's book section, we became the United States' first not-for-profit bookstores in 2019.
Maison Française d'Oxford @mfoxford.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre associated with the University of Oxford. We support the special link between the French & British academic worlds.
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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
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Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks
@LitroWorld @litromagazine.bsky.social Global storytelling platform amplifying diverse voices in literature. Explore stories, connect with writers, and be part of the literary conversation. 🌍
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Laura Raim @lauraraim.bsky.social Journaliste. "Les idées larges" sur Arte. Passée par Arrêt sur images, Le Monde diplomatique, Regards, La Revue du Crieur, Hors-série, Arte Radio, Fakir
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Rebecca du Plessis @rebeccadp.bsky.social Copy-editor, proofreader | Advanced Professional Member CIEP | academic humanities | fiction translations from French
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Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Hajar Azell @azellhajar.bsky.social Le sens de la fuite @gallimard
L'envers de l'été @gallimard
Ex-dir #média @ONORIENT
Ex #DémocratieParticipative #bluenove
Meryem Nejwa Belkaïd @meryemnejwabelkaid.bsky.social Academic, writer, poet and cat lover
Olivia Snaije @oliviasnaije.bsky.social Paris-based journalist interested in books, Middle East, African continent | work in The Africa Report, New Lines Magazine, Livres Hebdo and others | oliviasnaije.com
HopeRoad @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social HopeRoad: Independent publisher supporting neglected voices. Books from and about Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Small Axes publishing post-colonial classics and fiction in translation.
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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).
threeroomspress.bsky.social @threeroomspress.bsky.social Three Rooms Press is a fierce New York-based independent publisher inspired by diversity, dada, punk, and passion. Founded in 1994 by editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, Three Rooms serves as a leading independent publisher of cut-the-edge creative.
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
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Trinity College, Oxford @trinityoxford.bsky.social Official account of Trinity College, Oxford.
Pembroke College. Cambridge @pembroke1347.bsky.social The official account of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. We are a welcoming, inclusive and modern academic community.
Founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke.
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social We are AAS: scholars of adaptation, intertextuality, intermediality & all the disciplines that involve them. Arguably the best sidebar chat game in online aca-conferencing.
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Camille Schmoll @camilleschmoll.bsky.social Géographe, directrice d'études à l'Ehess. Specialiste des questions de mobilités, de migrations, de genre. Éditions de l'Ehess
Loïc Le Pape @llepape.bsky.social MCF science politique à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, chercheur au CESSP.
Entre Marseille et Paris
RescapX
Centres d'intérêts : #PolitiqueEtReligion #Laïcité #Radicalisation #Université #Marseille #MondeArabe #AfriqueS
Gisèle Sapiro @giselesapiro.bsky.social Sociologist, professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales and senior researcher at the CNRS (CESSP), member of Academia Europaea. Author of: The Sociology of Literature, French Writers' War. Forth. What is a World Author?
Fenna Ulichki @fennaulichki.bsky.social Amsterdam - Tanger
Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social Historicus - docent Universiteit Leiden & NIMAR
“This will end in tears” - Violet Crawley
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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Caroline Broué @carofc24.bsky.social Productrice à France Culture, directrice de la collection "Camera Obscura" chez Julliard, autrice
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/a-voix-nue
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-bonnes-choses
Natasa Kovacevic (@natasaphd) @natasaphd.bsky.social Literature prof, Eastern Michigan U // Anticolonial internationalisms, Cold War, and migration studies // Author, Narrating Post/Communism; Uncommon Alliances; Nonaligned Imagination.
www.emich.academia.edu/NatasaKovacevic
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social Caribbeanist. Literary translator. Lecturing Translation and Translation Studies @NantesUniversité. ❤️ in 🇵🇷.
Author of The Caribbean in Translation @PeterLangBooks. She/her.
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social (she/her) Reader, executive editor HarperOne Group, teach Publishing Works in Translation @NYU SPS, translator (French, Spanish), musician (Tissue, Boundaries)
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Marché de la Poésie @mdlpparis.bsky.social Poésie en dialogue // création littéraire // petite édition // lectures // spectacles // danse // musique
Hôtel de Massa 38 Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris, France 75014
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Sarra Grira @sarragrira.bsky.social Rédactrice en chef d'Orient XXI
Crown Center for Middle East Studies @mes-crown.bsky.social The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is committed to conducting balanced and dispassionate research of the modern Middle East that meets the highest academic standards.
https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/
IISMM @iismm.ehess.fr Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman
Unité d'Appui et de Recherche
UAR 2500 @EHESS /@CNRS
Michael Willis @drmjwillis.bsky.social Professor of North African Politics at University of Oxford.
@marieepommerolle.bsky.social @marieepommerolle.bsky.social
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social Compte officiel de l'université #Paris1PanthéonSorbonne : la grande université française des sciences humaines et sociales dans le monde
@erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. Literary translator. Here for all things academia, football, and Maghrebi lit. Personal account/opinions my own, etc.
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social An online magazine & micropublisher. ALQ & Books: http://arablit.org/ * Reader-supported: http://patreon.com/arablit, http://arablit.gumroad.com * PACBI signatory
Syracuse University Press @syracuseup.bsky.social Syracuse University Press strives to create books that are challenging, creative, beautiful, and affordable.
@sawadhussain.bsky.social @sawadhussain.bsky.social
Association Victor Segalen @victorsegalen87.bsky.social #victorsegalen #associationvictorsegalen #segalen #écrivain
L’association favorise la connaissance et la diffusion des œuvres de Victor Segalen : https://victorsegalen.org/
Presses universitaires de Rennes @editionspur.bsky.social Les PUR sont le premier éditeur public universitaire et veulent rendre la recherche universitaire accessible pour la réflexion citoyenne.
Maria Anna Mariani @mamariaanna.bsky.social
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye @satoumbodj.bsky.social Anthropologist, Mali, Sénégal, France. Popular culture, languages, media esp. radio.
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social One of the largest, most diverse Schools of Languages, Cultures & Societies in the UK. A leading centre for Languages, Classics, Film, Intercultural Studies, Translation & Linguistics.
Brahim El Guabli @ouldsahra.bsky.social Indigenous, Amazigh scholar.
Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Deirdre Kelly @deirdremkelly.bsky.social Lecturer in Spanish TU Dublin
Co-Editor: International Journal of Iberian Studies
Board Member: Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies
Université Paris 8 @univ-paris8.fr Compte officiel de l'université Paris 8
https://www.univ-paris8.fr
Mathieu Rigouste @mathieurigouste.bsky.social Critical research on security globalization
Recherche critiques sur la globalisation sécuritaire
🔎 https://mathieurigouste.net
🔎 https://enquetecritique.org
🎞️ https://noussommesdeschampsdebataille.net
🎞️ https://unseulheroslepeuple.org
Hamza Esmili @hamzaesmili.bsky.social Anthropologist @Université de Lausanne @Université libre de Bruxelles • Works on religion, ideology and the feeling of history. Currently writing about Mahmoud Darwich for La Découverte.
hamzaesmili.com
Éditions Amsterdam @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social Les Éditions Amsterdam assurent la traduction et l’édition d’ouvrages de philosophie, d’histoire et de sciences sociales 🔥📚
https://linktr.ee/editionsamsterdam?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel, PhD @profjoa.bsky.social
Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social Northwestern University Press is dedicated to publishing books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, from philosophy, to poetry, to lit crit, to translations, and beyond.
We are home to TriQuarterly and Curbstone Books.
Éditions Libertalia @libertalialivre.bsky.social Libertalia, édition indépendante et antifasciste.
Librairie Libertalia, 12 rue Marcelin-Berthelot, Montreuil (métro Croix-de-Chavaux).
Librairie Libertalia de la Maison des Métallos, Paris 11 (métro Couronnes).
Orient XXI @orientxxi.bsky.social Média en ligne, indépendant et en accès libre, lancé le 1er octobre 2013. Orient XXI propose un autre regard sur le monde arabe et le monde musulman.
https://orientxxi.info/
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Éditions Ròt-Bò-Krik @rotbokrik.bsky.social Maison d’édition petite, indépendante, polyphonique, joyeuse et baroque.
Joanne Brueton @joannebrueton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French Studies, ULIP; 'Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject' (2022); Co-author 'Le compas et la lyre: regards croisés sur les mathématiques et la poésie' (2019); Co-editor French and Francophone Section, Modern Languages Open
@sefsafapublishing.bsky.social @sefsafapublishing.bsky.social
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social Louisiana's premier academic publisher, established in 1935. #lsupress
University of Notre Dame Press @undpress.bsky.social The University of Notre Dame Press, the largest Catholic university press in the world, publishes academic and general interest books that engage the most enduring questions of our time.
Albertine Fox @albertinefox.bsky.social Researches French and Francophone cinema at Bristol University. Author of Godard and Sound (I.B.Tauris, 2017) and other things. Lover of animals and walks. Profile: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/albertine-fox
Nina Parish @ninaparish.bsky.social Head of School (Modern Languages and Cultures) and Professor of French @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Text/image, modern & contemporary poetry, memory studies & museums.
Katelyn E. Knox @katelynknox.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., c20&21 Francophone immigration literature and culture; author of Race on Display in 20th and 21st Century France and The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. She/her. https://go.dissertationtobook.com
Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP) @ihtpcnrs.bsky.social L’IHTP est un laboratoire de recherche qui ouvre de nombreux chantiers sur l’histoire récente du XXe et du XXIe siècle.
Walid Cherqaoui @walidcherqaoui.bsky.social Doctorant en science politique & histoire l @UnivParis8 @ihtpcnrs.bsky.social #Maroc #Tunisie l Histoire sociale des femmes engagées & sociologie politique des devenirs post-carcéraux | Vice-président de l’association Relais Prison-Société (RPS)
Cécile Oumhani @cecileoumhani.bsky.social Écrivaine.
« Les tigres ne mangent pas les étoiles » (Élyzad, 2024), roman.
Writer
« Like Birds in the Sky » (Red River, Delhi, 2024), short stories.
Sarah C. Dunstan @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social Historian of 20thC French & US Empire| Human rights, Citizenship, Race & Gender at the University of Glasgow
Author of Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (CUP, 2021).
Dr Ashley Harris @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social French Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Research: contemporary French authorship (écrivain médiatique), gender, banlieues, visual culture & sociological approaches.
Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
AUPHF+ @auphf.bsky.social Championing French & francophone teaching and research in the UK & Ireland. Open to all in HE French.
Previously the Association of University Professors and Heads of French