Maxim Romanov @maximromanov.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader (“The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” /EIS1600/), Uni Hamburg
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
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Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Rich Heffron @richheffron.bsky.social History teacher at Mercersburg Academy
Hugo Méndez @hugomendez.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author, The Epistles of John (Cambridge 2026) and The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford 2025) #LGM
Personal site: http://www.hugomendez.com
New Book: https://amzn.to/4jT6pJZ
Jörg Matthias Determann @determann.bsky.social Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Author of “Teaching Science Through Science Fiction” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy.” https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Matthew Levitt @mattlevitt.bsky.social Director, Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism & Intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
SHARIAsource@Harvard @shariasource.bsky.social SHARIAsource @ Harvard Law School is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools.
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Mehmetcan Akpınar, PhD @akpinarm.bsky.social PhD @UChicago || Specialist in Early and Medieval Islam || Tarihçi. İslam Tarihi Araştırmacısı || University of Chicago @UChiDivinity @NELC_UChicago
MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social Your Middle East virtual library. Posts of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialisedinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
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Anna M. Gade @profannag.bsky.social Academic concerns, religion, environment, Asia/Indonesia | [Envir. Ethics (forth.)] | Muslim Environmentalisms (Columbia UP) | The Qur’an: An Introduction | opinions my own | she/her
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
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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/
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Huda Fakhreddine @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social Writer, Translator, and Prof. of Arabic Literature
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 🌹
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social Texas news, politics, food, culture, travel, yee-haw, and more since 1973. 🤠
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
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Eric Calderwood @ericcalderwood.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
Joe Snell @joesnellreports.bsky.social 🌍 World news for The Washington Post. Assyrian. joseph.snell@washpost.com
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
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Kareem Shaheen @kshaheen.bsky.social Middle East Editor, Newsletters Editor @newlinesmag. Former Guardian Mideast correspondent. Gamer dad.
Conor Dube @conordube.bsky.social Research Fellow in North African Medieval History @uclarchaeology.bsky.social; postdoc with the MEDGREENREV project; philologist and historian working on the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
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
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
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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).
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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social Global affairs columnist @NewYorker.com. Dad. Victoria concordia crescit.
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Ali Karjoo-Ravary علی کارجو راوری @alikarjooravary.com history. new york city. https://history.columbia.edu/person/karjoo-ravary-ali-2/
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
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Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions @qalamos.bsky.social Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.net | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
Ramon Harvey @ramonharvey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College | Maturidi and Husserl | Editor: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology: http://bit.ly/3DLOOB5
Brannon Ingram @brannoningram.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
Open Islamicate Texts Initiative @openiti.bsky.social Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org
Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
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.
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
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
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/
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
Khalil Andani @khalilandani.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion, scholar is Islamic Studies, Quranic studies, Ismailism, Sufism, and Muslim Philosopher of Religion
Jon Hoover @jhoover04.bsky.social Islamic Studies, Taymiyyan Studies. Views are my own. Likes and reposts≠endorsement.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Justin Stearns @kaohu11.bsky.social Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
Zishan Ghaffar @ghaffarzishan.bsky.social Professor of Qur'anic Exegesis at the University of Paderborn.
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social PD,U Kassel.Entangled history of Europe,India&the Middle East."German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill,2015)."A Taste for Purity."(NY:Columbia University Press,2024).
https://www.julia-hauser.de
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
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Thomas A. Carlson @medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society.
https://www.thomasacarlson.com/
https://medievalmideast.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279
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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
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
Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
Daniel Picus @danielpicus.bsky.social Amateur pastry chef
Isaac Meister @imeister.org systems wrangler, anti-AI jihadi, technonecromancer, avid cook, cat dad, highly lapsed classicist, notably 🏳️🌈, husband to @danielpicus.bsky.social, &c. &c.
Mohamad El Chamaa @mohamadelchamaa.bsky.social reporter @WashingtonPost.com
📫 mohamad.elchamaa@washpost.com
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Mona Harb @monaharb.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut
Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Senior @cipolicy.bsky.social Fellow. Former @tcfdotorg.bsky.social @crisisgroup.org. "Jamajem" means ☠️.
www.abujamajem.com
Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.
Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social Washington Post investigations reporter
Co-host of Schlock and Awe: https://schlockandawe.substack.com/
Executive Council, Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
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.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
Timothy E. Kaldas @tekaldas.bsky.social Deputy Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social
Analyst, Student, Professor, and Professional Cynic
Study and teach at @uab.cat in Barcelona
#RefugeesWelcome He/Him
📍Barcelona
Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
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.
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.
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