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
Ivan Plis @ivanplis.bsky.social Not into “fun facts.” Human editor and church guy in DC. Pronounce me: https://ipa-reader.com/?text=i%CB%88v%C9%91%CB%90n%20pl%C9%AAs
ivanplis.com
Nora Epstein @noraepstein.bsky.social ❧ PhD in 16c. history
❧ MLIS
❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social Turkish/Arabic/Anglophone SF ☆ climate change ☆ urban futures ☆ petro-cultures ☆ #envhum
Lecturer in Comparative Literature @ Utrecht University
Researcher @ CoFutures
Editor-in-chief @ Polyfora
https://mervetabur.com
Middle Eastern Literatures, a journal @meliteratures.bsky.social A forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures (broadly conceived) from Late Antiquity until the present. Critical work welcome!
Michael Allan @fauxneem.bsky.social comparative literature, film and visual culture, middle east studies / literary, cinematic, philosophical, and bibliographic voyeurism / cats, donkeys, dogs, bunny rabbits, fuzzy creatures
Emily Drumsta @drumsta.bsky.social too weird to live, too rare to die
Ahmed Naji @ahmednaji.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Documentary Filmmakers, Criminal, ex-journalist. More about his crimes:
http://linktr.ee/anaji
ahmednaji.net
Fadi Zaghmout @fadizaghmout.bsky.social Jordanian feminist Scifi author of 5 novels. The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, LAILA, The Man of Middling Height, Hope on Earth.
Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون @sinanantoon.bsky.social Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, academic
sinanantoon.com
Hassan Abdulrazzak @abdulrazzak.bsky.social Scientist & Writer
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Dr. Yara Hawari @yarahawari.bsky.social Palestinian writer & co-director for Al Shabaka. Podcast host of Rethinking Palestine & author of The Stone House (She/Her). Opinions expressed are my own.
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
Huda Fakhreddine @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social Writer, Translator, and Prof. of Arabic Literature
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Lindsey Moore @lcmoore.bsky.social Postcolonialist, writer, reader, dog servant, off and on Arabic learner, riding the UK academia rollercoaster, kiwi at heart
Susan Muaddi Darraj @susanmd.bsky.social Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com 
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
Abdelrahman ElGendy @elgendy95.bsky.social Preorder HUNA: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming; forthcoming from Hogarth, Penguin Random House on Sep 1, 2026.
https://www.abdelrahmanelgendy.com/huna
Deena @itsdeenasaur.bsky.social Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
Dr Matthew L Keegan @drkeegan.bsky.social Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
Bulaq Podcast @bulaqbooks.bsky.social Book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey. Produced by Sowt. Email bulaq@sowt.com.
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Chelsea Abdullah @chelsabdullah.bsky.social Quirky Writer l she/her l Author of THE STARDUST THIEF (Orbit) l Next: THE ASHFIRE KING (April 15, 2025) l 🇰🇼 + 🇺🇸 l Rep: Jennifer Azantian
Fatima J. Alharthi @timajamal.bsky.social Fiction writer
falharthi.com
Baladi Magazine @baladimagazine.bsky.social Exploring the Past, Engaging the Present, Imagining the Future. #Palestine #Gaza #Sudan #Congo #Indigenous #Solarpunk #Futurism Art Aya Ghanameh. https://ko-fi.com/baladimagazine
Editor @LaylaAzmiGoushey.bsky.social
“Identity is fluid" - Ruth Ann Skaff
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 👀.
Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social author • palestinian • she/her • rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Amir Moosavi @amir-moosavi.bsky.social Reluctant reverse commuter teaching about Persian and Arabic lits and some other things. I just finished writing a book and it comes out in June: https://www.sup.org/books/dust-never-settles
Eman Quotah @emanquotah.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, comms professional. Author of THE NIGHT IS NOT FOR YOU (Wildfire Books; Orbit US/Run for It) and BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House).
Nora Parr @noraehp.bsky.social Arabic, books, Palestine, better than now
George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Elliott Colla @abumrouj.bsky.social المخوزق يشتم السلطان
Hilal Chouman (هلال شومان) @hichouman.bsky.social 5 Ar novels: ma rawahu alnawm, napolitana (2010), Limbo Beirut (2012 - EN Trans. Sep 2016), Kana Ghadan (2016), Hozn Fee Qalby (2022). I always share ETAs.
iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 @deltahead.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Best-selling/award-winning artist, writer, game dev
📚 Wallflower, Nayra and the Djinn, Mis(h)adra
💙 Sonic the Hedgehog™️ (comics/animation)
🌱 Snotgirl (letters)
📝 Views r my own
🍉 Free Palestine
🖋️ iasminomarata.com
📨 iasminomarata@gmail.com
💬 they/he
Tarik Dobbs @tarikd.xyz assistant professor of English (creative writing-poetry) | running poetry.onl | poems: Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024); Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, forthcoming) | 🏳️🌈🇱🇧🇸🇾 | 🇵🇸
Nadia Shammas @nadiashammas.bsky.social Palestinian-American writer, artist, narrative designer, and award-winning wretch. She/They.
GAMES: SKINSCRIBING, THIRSTY SUITORS, THIS IS NORMAL: https://slothysunday.itch.io/this-is-normal
COMICS: SQUIRE, WHERE BLACK STARS RISE, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT
Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social Author of 🇵🇸 If You Cannot Say Genocide & 15 other books
Poetry, aphorisms, and essays on art, faith, and conscience
Liberties | Salmagundi | World Literature Today
📚 amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social Queer Muslim. Author of five books. Father of two boys. Latest: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr 🇱🇧🇹🇷2170
Natasha Tynes 🇯🇴🇺🇸 @natashatynes.bsky.social Jordanian- American author, journalist, podcaster and ghostwriter.
Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReview
Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social New book: The Blood Between Us. Also The Road from Damascus. Co-author Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at @Prisons. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) & THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (late 2025) via Saqi Books | 🇱🇧&🇵🇸 | Born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney); now a Londoner | He/him | الياس جهشان
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-queer-arab-family/
Safiya 🌙 @safiyacherfi.bsky.social Freelance book editor.
Writes stories: short, literary, historical, sometimes speculative | published in Inner Worlds, LSQ, Gutter and more | Love languages & history
🕊️🇵🇸🏴
https://linktr.ee/safiyacherfi
www.cherfiediting.co.uk
Nadia El-Fassi @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social Fantasy Romance and Horror Author. Professional Yearner. Bookseller Rising Star and Ex-Senior Commissioning Editor. Rep’d by Maddy Belton.
Alaa Al-Barkawi @alaaal-barkawi.bsky.social ✨YA Author of IN THE COUNTRY I LOVE (Peachtree Teen, Summer 2026)
✨Co-runner of QuillersSwana
✨Shia Muslim
✨Iraqi 🇮🇶
✨Rep: Jenissa Graham @ Bookends Literary
Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Writer | Arabfuturist | SFF | Cat dad 🐈⬛️ |
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out now with Gollancz & Saga Press.
Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mahmudelsayed
Lamia N. Bayen @inknest.bsky.social Syrian surgeon tossed north on a rogue wind. Spec & lit fic author. THE WINGSPAN OF TREASON is out 26th Nov.
www.lnbayen.com
Youssef Alaoui @iuoala.bsky.social Poet, Novelist, Screenwriter, Editor, Publisher, Teacher, Researcher, Translator, Voiceover, Web Design, Graphic Arts, Event Organizer bio.site/youssefalaoui
N.S. Ahmed @nsahmed99.bsky.social Son of Egyptian immigrants/ Brooklynite writer/ Artifact of the world / TEDx Speaker / 2022 @peripluscollect fellow / Hertog Fellow @Hunter_College Fiction MFA
Rehab Bassam 🍉 @hadouta.bsky.social Writer, editor, translator, daydreamer, lover of books and baked goods.
I read dictionaries for fun but cat videos always welcome.
Egyptian, chasing the sun around Newcastle.
صعيدية من برج الثور
Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social writer-translator-critic
Mustafa Marwan @mustafamarwan.bsky.social Writer/Aid worker/Trainer. My Page Turner Award finalist, GUNS AND ALMOND MILK, is on pre-order from Interlink Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster
KhaledAlesmael @khaledalesmael.bsky.social Just a regular Syrian writer and journalist in London, telling stories of love, exile, and everything in between.
Always in 🐆 print! So watch out ⚠️
(He/him)
Books: Selamlik 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇸🇪🇩🇰🏳️🌈
Gateway to the Sea 🇩🇪🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Hanan Issa @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social National Poet of Wales @litwales 💚 ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.com✨I don’t read work-related DM’s✨ All views my own. Rep’d by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social Arab American Poet
https://linktr.ee/smbadawi
Dr. Maha El Hissy د. مها الحصى @mahaelhissy.bsky.social Writing non-fiction on fiction
curator „Vorzeichen“
editor “Die ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand”
author “Getürkte Türken”
mahaelhissy@yahoo.com
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Ege Altan @altanege.bsky.social PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and WGSS at Penn State 📚 Researching queer aesthetics & literary world-building in Arabic and Turkish lit 🌈
al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in SWANA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
Kamran Rastegar @krastegar.bsky.social Literature • Cinema • Music • Politics • Middle East
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
Reading Islamic Texts @islamtexts.bsky.social Islamic studies researcher ⚡ Sharing beautiful & fascinating Islamic art, thought and history. ✨ Original translations of Classical Arabic
https://www.readingislamictexts.com
#islam #quran #hadith #sufi #arabic #calligraphy #art #manuscript #islamic
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia
https://islamicorigins.com
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
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
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
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
Misbah Hyder @misbah-hyder.bsky.social Pedagogy nerd who thinks about agency, peacebuilding, & Islam. 🕌
Diagnosed as a high-performing paradox… 👀
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, PhD @mchidarazvi.bsky.social Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
Paolo Sartori @psardor.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @oeaw |
Editor of JESHO and JCAH |
Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/
Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
Johanna Pink @jabunna.bsky.social Prof of Islamic Studies @UniFreiburg. Mostly busy with GloQur–The Global Qur'an. And three children. And my chili 🌶 plants.
Current mood: Trying to write a global history of modern Muslim Qur'an translation. 🤩 Being kept from finishing by admin work.😤
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.
https://gloqur.de
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.
Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social Historical Linguist; Working on Quranic Arabic and the linguistic history of Arabic and Tamazight. Game designer for Team18k
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.
https://www.mlawrencepayne.com
Alison Vacca @medievalqabq.bsky.social editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
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
Ashraf Hassan @ashraf1974108.bsky.social Lecturer of Arabic.
BA & MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies, PhD in Arabic Studies.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. she/her.
(specifics @ profirmf.com)
Sarah R. bin Tyeer @sarahrbintyeer.bsky.social Scholar of adab, Arabic and Comparative Literature
A. Melle Lyklema @amelle.bsky.social On a long journey to a PhD on wa'z and da'wa
Zishan Ghaffar @ghaffarzishan.bsky.social Professor of Qur'anic Exegesis at the University of Paderborn. 
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
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.
Sufism on Bluesky @sufism.bsky.social Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
Seyma Kabaoglu @skabaoglu.bsky.social PhD Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social visiting scholar at @faithandjustice.bsky.social | creator: "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author: "The Violent Take It by Force" | www.drmatthewdtaylor.com
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