Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH @larazjmd.bsky.social Physician, Community organizer, Social medicine practitioner. Parent. Lebanese-Palestinian @harvardmed. Opinions my own. Still 😷 #NotATarget #NoOneIsIllegal
Tatreez & Tea @tatreezandtea.bsky.social www.tatreezandtea.com
S. Swogger @greenegret.bsky.social (she/her), librarian, occasional quilter, parent, cat lover. Writer of bland social media bios
@mmdbiochem.bsky.social @mmdbiochem.bsky.social 
Dr. Kalin Kiesling @krkiesling.bsky.social Nuclear engineer and mom. Views and posts are all my own.
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voiceofthebanshee.bsky.social @glorbeansidhe.bsky.social Science is real! Also, cats.
Alicia Mohr @ajhmohr.bsky.social Research support “Alt-Ac” at the University of Minnesota. Open science advocate. R enthusiast. Data manager.
Stacey Lim @drstaceylim.bsky.social Associate Professor of Audiology at Central Michigan University. Cochlear implant user. Aural rehabilitation researcher. Lover of mysteries, knitting, and art.
Sara Appleby @saraappleby1.bsky.social Social and legal psychologist at Mercer U researching all things interviewing, interrogations, and confessions. She/her
AMA: Art Mirrors Art @art-mirrors-art.bsky.social What's AMA? A history of mirrors in art? Yes, and a bit of history of mirrors themselves, as a technology, and a bit of history of ideas about mirrors, in different cultures over time. Also, the stories about our mistakes in interpreting all the above.
Marlene Wolfe @marlenekwolfe.bsky.social Environmental health scientist and faculty at Emory Public Health
Mom trying to make the world a better place
Runner trying to handle the world the way it is
(Views are my own)
She Resisted @sheresistedtwice.bsky.social - K Katie Karlsgodt @katiekarlsgodt.bsky.social Assoc Prof at UCLA Psych, schizophrenia, brains, development, cognition.
Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social Sociolinguist at Virginia Tech | Academic mama | Studies New Orleans Language & Culture | she/her
Author of ‘Language and Place’, available open access 👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-and-place/E95116DA21FDDFCDF4DFE5375765514C
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social A cooperative of North American political artists and printmakers on the left! Founded in 2007. Bleets by @toosphexy.bluesky.social. Visit Justseeds.org
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Lynn Huber @lhuber.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. I write about Revelation and gender, queer hermeneutics. Currently working on a book about color, race, and Revelation. Originally from PDX. I love dogs. I craft and make art.
www.lynnrhuber.com
Alex Hodges @alex-librarian.bsky.social HGSE faculty. he/him/his. I teach. I research. I serve. Tampan, Washingtonian, Cantabrigian. 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 *My own opinions are not my employer's*
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/
Imran (he/him) @imran-khan.bsky.social Engineer trying to use my powers for good 
J. A. Curtis @aloomaster.bsky.social She/her
Farm emo 🐮 Egg punk 🐣 Medical SLP 😷 Child Free 🆓 Scotch 🥃 Cat lady 🐈⬛ Over-sharer 😳 Reader 📚 Knitter 🧶 Californian 🌁 Baltimorean 🐀 Progressive
“If you know me, you know that I am sleepy, and I do not remember what you just told me.” - Maria Bamford
Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
www.candacelukasik.com
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
Eric @ehanne.bsky.social Savoyard, Army Brat, Historian of Medieval Islamic history and culture, Lord Peter Wimsey is my inspiration. Husband & I have the largest pride of rescue kitties. I snark, therefore I am.
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Josef Ženka @mozkyt.bsky.social Historian: Nasrid Granada, Manuscripts and Documents.
MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social library worker
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
DAI @dai-weltweit.bsky.social Hier berichtet der Stab Kommunikation aus der Arbeit von über die aktuelle Forschung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI).
Impressum: http://dainst.org/impressum- A @alexbrey.bsky.social @alexbrey.bsky.social
SLAM: Islamic Art @slamislamicart.bsky.social Sharing artworks from the Islamic Art department of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Fuchsia Hart @fuchsiahart.com Curator for the Iranian Collection, V&A Museum
Wendy Shaw @cageinbeakifly.bsky.social The cage opened the door.
It shook and squeezed,
disinterested in my fall or flight.
My friends!
I shook out my fine feathers.
These plumes are my pens.
On written words and turned clay,
On winged water and pressed sound
I now fly.
Jake Benson @jwbenson.bsky.social Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.
BM: Arts of the Islamic World (Bot) @bmislamicarts.bsky.social Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum.
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
CMA: Islamic Art @cmaislamic.bsky.social Sharing public domain works from the Islamic Art department of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Dr Ladan Akbarnia @ladanakbarnia.bsky.social Museum curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (and formerly at The British Museum and Brooklyn Museum), San Diego County Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Curator of Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World (2024-25)
Fayrouz Ibrahim, Ph.D @drfayrouzibrahim.bsky.social Associate Professor and Art Historian specializing in the Medieval period of the Mediterranean basin, with a focus on sacred art and architecture, material culture, and the early Islamic periods.
ਅਕਸ਼ਜ Akshaj, (they/he/elle/él) @cevahirulebrar.bsky.social DPhil-ing Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford (MPhil Islamic Art '25)
Ottomans, Uzbeks and everything in between.
Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Scholar, Khalili Research Centre+New College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Charlotte Bank @charlottebank.bsky.social Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
Co-director Art-Lab Berlin
Sibghat Khan @mdsibghat.bsky.social architecture and history
Dr Awet T. Araya @awettaraya.bsky.social Archaeologist | Museum Curator |Academic
Research: Islamic, Medieval Archaeology, Material culture, Horn of Africa, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian/Persian Gulf
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
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
@ibnhawqal.bsky.social @ibnhawqal.bsky.social 
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social 
Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social Fantasy author (THE TETHERED MAGE, THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS, etc). Tea drinker, larper, mom. Swordfights in ballgowns. THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID coming 11/26!
Dr Sam Bowker @drsambowker.bsky.social Academic. Art Historian. Regional Australian. Egyptian Tentmakers and Shadow Theatre.
Pronounced "too-urk true-ith" @drtwrchtrwyth.bsky.social Pansexual wife guy. He/him, not actually a doctor. I'm like 30 or 40 years old or something idk. If you know me in real life, no you don't get out of here
Balabanlilar @balabanlilar.bsky.social professor of history, pre-modern South and Central Asia, Islamic kingship, Mughal landscapes and the peripatetic royal court
Bárbara ⁷ (slow) @bagbs.bsky.social #BTS Fan Account
Only #army_bsky | Since 2022.06.10 | '95 line
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold | latest: “Propaganda of the Victims” (https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2026.10037) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
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
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
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
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
SCORE @rebellionuhh.bsky.social Emmy Noether research group, 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)', Hamburg. https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html. "Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World" (EUP, Dec 2024, OA!). Shared account.
Theo Beers @t6e.dev Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer
Senior course producer @Boot.dev, non-res. fellow @FUBerlin
Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian
https://www.theobeers.com/
John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
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
Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social Academic. Writing/complaining mostly about women’s inequality in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia!
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Sara Alfageeh @saraalfageeh.bsky.social Illustrator + Marketer 🌿 Forbes 30 Under 30 🌿 Author of picture book NOT YET and award-winning comic SQUIRE 🌿 co-founder
One More Multiverse
Portfolio: Sara-Alfa.com
Say hello at alfaillustration@gmail.com
Al-Shabaka الشبكة @alshabaka.bsky.social The Palestinian Policy Network. An independent, nonprofit think tank without borders. Arabic & English. https://al-shabaka.org/
Mhmd @mhmdhemish.bsky.social Recovering journalist. Alleged engineer. News junkie. Communication @alshabaka.bsky.social Latinoamerica/Middle East/Palestine.
Layla Azmi Goushey @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social Prof. English. MFA Fiction. M.A. History. PhD Teaching/Learning. Sci-Fi/Fntsy, Arab American. Secular Humanist. Palestine 🇵🇸. Cats #UAPsky / #UFOsky 👀.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social Archaeologist. Socioecologist. How do people govern themselves? Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society. Director of the Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics Lab @ Penn State.
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social Palestinian in exile. Satire, news, & own opinions. Librarian.
Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon | Chair of the Health & Social Care Select Committee | Here because Musk ruined the ‘other (social) place’ | she/her | Promoted by the Lib Dems, Unit C5 Grange Court, Barton Lane, OX14 3NB
Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social Writer and journalist from Gaza City.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
https://buymeacoffee.com/emissaryofnight
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social Gaza 🇵🇸 MoM of 3 Kids
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Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa.bsky.social Writer | Associate Director of Editorial at IMEU, US policy fellow at Al-Shabaka | words in: @washingtonpost.com, @latimes.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @thenation.com, etc.
Twitter: @tksshawa
Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us He/him. دمي فلسطيني
Grandson of Nakba survivors. Son of a Naksa survivor. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Support local ⚽️.
مش طالعين.
📍Shawnee, Kaskaskia, & Ofo lands
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
flyover cunty @muchlibrary.bsky.social screaming into the void
Free Palestine and end war forever
Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social (he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social Progressive; political analyst (US/Middle East, Palestine/Israel). Formerly at IMEU, AAI, & Al Jazeera. Into MMA. Views are mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇸
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya