(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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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
Unmanned Systems Forces of the City of Troy 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social the road to social democracy leads through the ruins of moscow
he/him
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Amro. @amro.xyz Amro.
Not a medical doctor.
Former physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory
Despite all that, still a daydream believer
[sorry - can't use DMs ... because I won’t scan my face or something]
https://letterboxd.com/iamamro/
Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته
You’ll cry and then do nothing.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Marybeth Hamilton @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social Writer, historian, podcaster.
Hosam Aboul-Ela @bluehasooma.bsky.social writer-translator-critic
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
@allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dr Sophie Cormack @sophiecormack.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Uni. of Sunderland. Perception of time, procrastination, learning analytics, online learning, cats, travel & happiness.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Peter @peter.polari.com Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🍉
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com Politics with https://anticapitalistresistance.org/ and blogging at https://anticapitalistmusings.com/ and books at https://resistancebooks.org/
Anti Capitalist/Anti Fascist/Anti Trump
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social Opinions expressed here are my own and not reflective of my institution. English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress on the New York Hippodrome. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome
Maho Sebiane @mahosebiane.bsky.social Anthropology of Music | CRAL-EHESS | Heritage Studies on the Margins | Afro-Arab Music History | Music & Slavery | Possession Rituals | MENA | Arab-Persian Gulf & Western Indian Ocean | Posts : Fr / Eng
Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social Deputy Programme Director, Head of Racial Justice Team at @amnesty, @dukelaw alumna & lawyer on paper. My views are against the notion of property. On est les derniers locataires qui décollent.
Abdalhadi Alijla @abdalhadi.bsky.social Gazan. Researcher. I write and speak on MENA, Peace and Conflicts. Award-winning researcher. Www.abdalhadi.net
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Reem Awny Abuzaid @reemabuzaid.bsky.social PhDing and Sn. GTA@ Warwick Uni. MA & LLM @ AUC. MSc in sociology @ LSE. Interested in gendered citizenship, legal activism, LGBT+ and women activism in Egypt and Lebanon. 
Christopher Silver @christophersilver.bsky.social Historian, author of Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (SUP, 2022), collector of records, associate professor of Jewish history and culture at McGill University, curator of gharamophone.com
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
Fiona B. Adamson @fionaadamson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @SOAS.
Transaidency e.V. @transaidency.bsky.social 
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
Aya Nassar @ayanassar.bsky.social 
N. G. McBurney @ngmcburney.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller with a focus on printed books and manuscripts from the Muslim world, defined as broadly and inclusively as possible.
www.ngmcburney.com
MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social Retired History teacher, Gardener, Avid reader (formerly @corneliagracchi at X)
#GardenGrewPeas #BalconyGardening #ResistanceGardening 🌱
Peter Cherry @peterjcherry.bsky.social Assistant Director, @thebiaankara.bsky.social |Author&researcher: gender,migration,Turkish&UK literature&culture |Co-presenter Heritage Türkiye podcast |Chair of Adults with Dyscalculia Advisory Board, @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social |all views my own- S Seán Swanick @sultanofoman.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"
Ryan Swan ريان سوان @ryanswan.bsky.social PhD candidate @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Kamran Rastegar @krastegar.bsky.social Literature • Cinema • Music • Politics • Middle East
Gert Huskens @gerthuskens.bsky.social Historian | Belgian Expatriates in Egypt, 1882-1936 | Postdoc at Ghent University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
Victor Salama @vicosalama.bsky.social Author, translator, researcher.
Media in the Arab world, past & present, with the occasional football and #FPL posts.
♥️ = bookmark
Maarten Horn @mhorn.bsky.social PhD Student in History and Senior Library Information Assistant at UEA • Desk Chair Archaeologist • Histories of Archaeology • Egyptian Prehistory • Cancer Survivor • Dutch and Dad
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders/RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border and Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩
Zeynep Ertugrul @zepertug.bsky.social SSC Postdoctoral Fellow - Columbia University
Intellectuals, propagandists - early republican Turkey
Claire Cooley @clairescooley.bsky.social current project: sonic infrastructures & middle east & south asia film histories | vera's mom | she/her | 🍉
Nora Parr @noraehp.bsky.social Arabic, books, Palestine, better than now
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
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
rayya badran ريّا بدران @rayyabadran.bsky.social writer of cont. art, music and sound • translator • she/her
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Alex @blangry.bsky.social Final year DPhil anthropology of civic tech. Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social Writer, occasional talking head, Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Chichester. Autistic. Views own, etc. She/her.
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Dr Alice Williams @aliceinmuseums.bsky.social AHRC Research Fellow, UCL Institute of Archaeology | Museum and exhibition history, specialising in the display and reception of collections from Egypt.
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇷
Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Thomas Coombes @thehopeguy.eurosky.social I train people in hope-based communication.
Writing on https://hopebased.substack.com
Carol Kino @carolkino.bsky.social I write about art, photography, culture, more.
Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines
@scribnerbooks.bsky.social
NYPL Cullman Fellow 2019-20 http://CarolKino.com
Daughter of a scientist - what the hell would he be thinking now
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
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding).
http://instagram.com/josephwillits/
https://linktr.ee/josephwillits
Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament.
From between Junction 12/13 of the M6.
Not funny, but tweets my own.
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
Mariam Enany @menany.bsky.social Researcher on New Media music and Digital Culture in the MENA region, with a focus on Egypt. Writer and copyeditor. Former homes: Mada Masr, NYU Kevo, Bard College.
Elie Zananiri @prisonerjohn.com 
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Kate Werran @kate-werran.bsky.social I write about WW2 social history. Author of Black Yanks: Defending Leroy Henry in D-Day Britain (The History Press, 2024) and American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy (Pen & Sword, 2020). Assoc FRHistS. PhD Student at Exeter Uni.
Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social Associate Professor, Astrophysicist. Founder, Publisher
@astronomerstel. Opinions here are my own. @rerutled@mastodon.online @rerutled at Threads. he/him
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social Married, mum, grandma, retired social worker, intested in politics, climate and environment,social justice, equality, youth justice #BLM, #loveislove, woke, Scottish by birth and half of my geneology, British. Friend of the quiet majority @majorityquiet
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
Joakim Parslow @joakimparslow.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies/ modern Turkey at the University of Copenhagen, but primarily employed by two little kids. Turkish law, STS, intellectual history. 
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
Carlitos Corazón @carlitoscorazon.bsky.social Joining the new American resistance! Here to fight for women, non-believers and religious minorities, the lgbt community, immigrants, black/brown/tan folk, veterans, first Americans, the elderly, and the disabled. We were ALL ALREADY great! 🇺🇸✊🏽
Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Managing Editor, CASI, University of Pennsylvania || 📍Cairo, Egypt
rohanv on Twitter
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
VGBelinsky @vbelinsky.bsky.social Member of Counter Attack project. Reposting material from the journal.