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Stuart Brown @zzztype.bsky.social Publishing (mainly Arabic), politics (mainly socialist), jokes (mainly poor). A Brit transplanted to the Netherlands. 
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.
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social Studying how Jews meet modernity. Children’s lit—>democracy. Labzik, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
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Cathy Erway @cathyerway.bsky.social JBA-winning food writer, author of The Food of Taiwan
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Robin Moger @robinmoger.bsky.social L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
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Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
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!
Ellen O'Connell Whittet @oconnellwhittet.bsky.social Memoir WHAT YOU BECOME IN FLIGHT from @melvillehouse | co-host @goodmomsonpaper podcast | bylines @vogue @parisreview @time @buzzfeed @vulture @theatlantic | she/her
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
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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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Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her- V @vgc925.bsky.social @vgc925.bsky.social
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Melanie Magidow @magidow.bsky.social I coordinate projects at Minitex, the Minnesota library consortium, housed at The University of Minnesota. I also translate Arabic to English.
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) @mesa1966.bsky.social Founded in 1966, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. https://linktr.ee/mesa_1966
Barbara @behalla63.bsky.social PhD student work on French and Italian feminist theory, women's writing, and literary criticism.- E Logun @eomnugol.bsky.social
Randa Achmawi-Whitley @randaachmawi.bsky.social Award-winning #Journalist #BoardMember #StrategiesforPeace #MenaRegion #Trustee/Director
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Cow Eye Press @coweyepress.bsky.social Alternative publisher specializing in literary fiction with a focus on cows and cattle. coweyepress.com/
Hamdullah Baycar @hamdullahbaycar.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @KTU IR
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Anny Gaul @annygaul.bsky.social Author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (2025) 🍅 Ceasefire + arms embargo now 🍉 Views my own 🍅 https://bio.site/annygaul
Bulaq Podcast @bulaqbooks.bsky.social Book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey. Produced by Sowt. Email bulaq@sowt.com.
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.
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Sushma Jansari @sushmajansari.bsky.social South Asia Curator @britishmuseum (previously Lead Curator #SouthAsiaGallery @mcrmuseum) • Trustee @RoaldDahlMuseum
Dr. Kurosh Meshkat @kuroshmeshkat.bsky.social Anglo-Persian Relations, Political Thought and the Perso-Arabian Gulf, 1500-1800. Formerly @UiS, @UiO, @QMUL and @UkNatArchives, now @BLQatar @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Selçuk Şirin @selcuksirin.com Prof. @NYUniversity
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Annie Webster @tinybuddy.bsky.social 
BULAC @bulac.bsky.social Compte Bluesky officiel de la BULAC, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations.
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Sultan AlQassemi @sultanalqassemi.bsky.social Art collector, educator, writer.
Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social cultural organizing + production in solidarity with Palestine
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Martin Klimke @maklimke.bsky.social Vice Provost, Associate Professor of History, NYUAD; Global Network Associate Professor of History, Arts & Sciences, NYU
Museums in Arabia @museumsinarabia.bsky.social Internationally established network focusing on the arts, heritage and museums in the Arabian Peninsula.
Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, defined expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social pre
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nariman youssef @nariology.bsky.social just lurking for now
Tim Gregory @tarjema.bsky.social Translator & language nerd 🗣️ Literary & commercial translation | Let’s talk about what gets lost — and found — in translation 🌐 tarjema.com
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Maria Marsh @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social Middle Eastern & African studies, Publisher, Cambridge University Press. All views are mine.
Michael Payne @mlawrencepayne.bsky.social Translator and historian | PhD from Brown University | Writing about al-Jāḥiẓ, animals, race, and enslavement | Interested in early Islam and late antique Christianity.
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Matt Sharp @mattsharp.bsky.social 
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Hafizah Augustus Geter @hafizah.bsky.social 🇳🇬🇺🇸🏳️🌈 Writer: THE BLACK PERIOD, @randomhouse | UN-AMERICAN, @weslpress | Abolitionist-in-training | Literary Agent at @JanklowNesbit
Rich Heffron @richheffron.bsky.social History teacher at Mercersburg Academy
Kristian Petersen @kristianap.bsky.social 
شنشون @humanprovince.bsky.social Meh
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
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Zayde Antrim @zaydeantrim.bsky.social Editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social, author of Routes and Realms (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Adam Ramey @adamramey.bsky.social Political science prof @nyuabudhabi, wannabe data scientist, cigar lover, globetrotter, & American politics junkie. RT != Endorsement.
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
The American University in Cairo Press @aucpress.bsky.social The leading English-language publisher in Egypt and the Middle East.
Raph Cormack @raphcormack.bsky.social صعلوك الادب
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
Emily Drumsta @drumsta.bsky.social too weird to live, too rare to die
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @isawlibrary.bsky.social The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Huda Fakhreddine @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social Writer, Translator, and Prof. of Arabic Literature
GloQur – The Global Qur'an @gloqur.bsky.social ERC-funded research project @UniFreiburg on the modern history of Muslim Qur'an translation. PI: Johanna Pink.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
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Andreas Nabil Younan @andreasyounan.bsky.social 
Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social Global Literary Theory on @medium.com engages poetics and collective liberation from a multilingual perspective. Home of the Palestine Writers Workshop and Lighthouse Collective. EIC @rrgould.bsky.social. https://medium.com/global-literary-theory
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
Janet Remmington @varioushats.bsky.social Editorial director, scholar, writer, runner. Publishing, humanities, mobilities. Research associate @HRCYork.bsky.social & University of Witwatersrand. Board @r4lpartnership.bsky.social & ASAUK. Own views
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social Publishing world voices that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow!
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Novel Memphis @novelmemphis.bsky.social Indie bookstore in Memphis, Tennessee
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