Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social Film scholar @ UT-Austin & exec director UTNY + UTLA | ‘26 Guggenheim fellow | books on ‘Casablanca’ + ‘Some Like It Hot’ (W.W. Norton + Faber), ed. Billy Wilder on Assignment (Princeton) | bylines: NYT, TNR, NYR, et al. | views = mine www.noahisenberg.com
Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social Doctoral researcher, ULB & ex Brown Fellow | 🔎 humanitarian organisations in the Anthropo/Ecocene, disaster management | 👀 on Turkey, the Mashreq, Maghreb & EU-Med | obvious nerd ~ sci/cli-fi for better futures
now 📍 Brussels, 💚 in Istanbul & Beirut
Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون @sinanantoon.bsky.social Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, academic
sinanantoon.com
Beth Shakman Hurd @bethhurd.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
Elizabethshakmanhurd.com
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social Then: archaeologist, art historian, editor. Now: lover of music, admirer of creatures. Essentially stateless.🌵
CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social Comparative Studies in Society and History journal publishes multidisciplinary research, cultural and area studies, and innovative ventures in theory and methods.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Dhouha Djerbi @dhouha-djerbi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Polisci @ Geneva Graduate Institute | Interest in rural conflict, women's movements, Tunisian politics, research methods.
تونس & Genève
عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com In a dictatorship, independent journalism, by default, becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.
My book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3225-counterrevolution-in-egypt
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social Digging through Mediterranean history. We love it all: the plow, the fishing net, the bandit's knife and the wedding contract. A little music as well.
Rachel Greenblatt @rachelgreenblatt.bsky.social Reading & writing on early modern Jewish history, women writers, old books & libraries of all ages, collective memory, higher ed. I like to be around people I can learn from, esp students & my kids. Love Irish trad sessions https://orcid.org/0000-0002-388
Olivier Stucky @olivier-stucky.bsky.social Docteur ès lettres de l'Université de Lausanne • Théorie et histoire de la bande dessinée, cultures médiatiques, histoire de l'édition imprimée et numérique, théorie des médias • Co-resp. Espace Micro-édition @ Festival BDFIL
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Elizabeth @kitabet.bsky.social earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar. outreach lead for PNSN; views and posts my own. now returned to the salish sea, but in the words of my former mayor, “you know first stop is always istanbul."
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
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I.B. Tauris (former imprint of Bloomsbury) @ibtauris.bsky.social All new Middle East Studies books now branded Bloomsbury Academic
Follow @bloomsburypol.bsky.social for updates on all new Politics & Area Studies books, incl. Middle East
Music Journals (Taylor and Francis) @musicjournalstf.bsky.social Posting on behalf of Contemporary Music Review, Journal of New Music Research, Jazz Perspectives, Popular Music and Society, Rock Music Studies, Journal of Musicological Research, and Ethnomusicology Forum.
Socials and links https://bento.me/musicjournal
SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social For more info about Stanford University Press, our books, and our authors, please be sure also to check out / follow our main channel,
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Nicholas Liu @liuser1536.bsky.social Mayo industry entryist and Verdi's Requiem Mass enjoyer
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Andrew Carnegie Foundation @carnegie.org Supporting ladders of opportunity and a more peaceful world.
Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Formerly Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Eurasia Group @eurasiagroup.net The geopolitical risk firm that helps you understand the world. Founded by @ianbremmer.com. Putting politics first for 25 years.
Erik O’Barr @erikcharlemagne.bsky.social Columbia Ph.D. // Ottoman and Iranian History // Other Random Stuff
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social TIMEP is dedicated to centering localized perspectives in the policy discourse on the Middle East and North Africa. (Twitter: @TIMEPDC)
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Grace Sharp @gracesharpp.bsky.social Features Editor @DisruptionBanking & @MRKT3.0. Writing about AI, power, and where money actually flows in tech.
Always keen to meet more founders, professionals, and interesting people building in AI and tech.
Nick Caverly @nickcav.bsky.social Professor person. Environments, technologies, and racial capitalism. I wrote a book: DEMOLISHING DETROIT: HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM ENDURES (Stanford UP, 2026). My words, not my employer’s. For more: nickcaverly.com
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Muhammad Amasha @mu-amasha.bsky.social Sociology PhD candidate @ Yale
Politics, Culture, Religion, Theory, Art, Middle East.
https://www.muhammad-amasha.com
Nat Nesvaderani @natnes.bsky.social iranian-american anthropologist & filmmaker I assistant prof multimodal anthro I EthnoCine collective I CoMMPCT collective 🐈 🚲 🧶 she/they 
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
alexandra boutros @alexandraboutros.bsky.social associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
Justin Kehoe @justinkehoe.bsky.social acquisitions editor at the MIT Press
musician at Constellation Myths
raised in Vermont, resides in Boston
he/him
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
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
Kareem El Damanhoury @kareemeldamanhoury.bsky.social Multimedia Journalism & Digital Storytelling Professor, Uni of Denver | Emmy-award winning Journo & Producer, CNN | News Junkie & E-E enthusiast | 2xIronman 70.3
www.keldamanhoury.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social Hunter High, WPRB, alt-weeklies, Spin Alternative Record Guide, Pop Conference, and professing. Top 40 Democracy. Songbooks, Hound Dog, Oxford Handbook of Pop Music
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the US branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Dr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social Climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Works on climate and sea level projections, corporate accountability, climate litigation, and climate justice.
Queer, disabled, vegan🌱🌈 She/her
Views expressed here are mine
Maryam Alemzadeh @maryamalem.bsky.social Assoc. prof. at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Writing a book on Iran's Revolutionary Guards
APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social APSA Preprints is an open research platform that provides a home for early research outputs in political science and related fields. Free to submit, access, and download at preprints.apsanet.org. 
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social Multiculti mash-ups from the far edge of the Western world (Berkeley, CA): religion, food, language, education, photography, music, basic human decency.
Marieke Kuypers @marieke.bsky.social Journalist/factchecker. Co-host podcast @computerenpodcast.bsky.social
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
Eirik Kvindesland @kvindesland.net Writer, historian, Post-doctoral fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Formerly at Oxford.
www.kvindesland.net
Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
Mack Hagood @mactra.bsky.social Sound scholar. Author. Subscribe to Phantom Power, a podcast + newsletter about sound at mackhagood.com.
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social writing about social movements, global political economy, abolitionism, (counter)violence and film photography,
phd researcher at university of hamburg / co-founder of queeranalogdarkroom berlin
(they/them)
Stephanie Boyle @khowagayya.bsky.social Historian, mom, personal assistant to Rocky
Medicine, Egypt and the Delta.
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social The public scholarship project.
👩🏻💻 Academic editing: christinagessler.com
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🎙️ Academic Life podcast: Apple, NBN, etc
Knowledge is a public good.
#AcademicSky #SkyWriting #BookSky #Skystorians #BookTok
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
Amy Herzog @amyherzog.bsky.social Film & Media Professor @ Queens College & the Grad Center, CUNY. She/her.
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
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. 🍉🇸🇩
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Mariam Elba @mariamelba.bsky.social Research Reporter at @propublica.org
Kutlu Akalın kutkut16 @kutkut16.bsky.social Assist. Prof., Dept. of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (2025)
Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social Friendly crone. Asst professor of History at CUNY. Plant person.
I wrote a book on Ottoman Egypt and the Mediterranean archive. It's out now! https://www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts-mediterranean/paper
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Zahr K. Said @zahrsaid.bsky.social Arab-American Law Professor at Santa Clara University / writes about copyright, the jury, remedies & torts / frets about higher education / loves passion fruit and giant avocados / manages EDS/POTS/Long Covid 🦓🦓🦓
Meri Kytö @merikyto.eurosky.social University lecturer in Musicology @ University of Turku, Associate professor in Auditory culture studies, Chair of Finnish Musicological Society (MTS), äänimaisemahommia since 1999, and hand weaving <3 FI/EN/TR
https://users.utu.fi/mlkyto/
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social Historian interested in media & memory.
Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Göttingen
Project coordinator (PhotoTogo) @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social
Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social Arab and Muslim public opinion, MENA, Religion & Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Research Scientist, Yaqeen Institute
إسكندراني / Brooklynite
#YNWA
www.chouhoud.com
Andrew J. Eisenberg @anthroposound.bsky.social Associate Professor of Music @ NYU Abu Dhabi. Writes on music & sound in Kenya. #Ethnomusicology #Anthropology. Author 'Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya's Swahili Coast' www.weslpress.org/9780819501066/sounds-of-other-shores
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers. 
@amrismail10.bsky.social @amrismail10.bsky.social 
Isabel “Izzy” Black (Joely) @autisticalchemyst.bsky.social I study the anthropology of magic, objects, and people. Moomins. Writing a book about making magical objects in Roman Egypt. I also write fantasy fiction and building a model of the Moomin House. Autistic.
joelyblack.substack.com.
Veronique Schönleben @vschoenleben.bsky.social Journalistin, Serien-Junkie, News-Nerd. Hauptberuflich zu viel im Internet, privat auch. Hier privat.
Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Celebrating the Arts and Sciences community and scholarship that pushes the boundaries of discovery and creativity. 🌲https://faculty.dartmouth.edu/artsandsciences/
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Crown Center for Middle East Studies @mes-crown.bsky.social The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is committed to conducting balanced and dispassionate research of the modern Middle East that meets the highest academic standards.
https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/
Tugrul Mende @tmende.bsky.social Books and Vinyls ❤️
Fiona B. Adamson @fionaadamson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @SOAS.
Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social assistant professor of comparative literature at utrecht uni. projects on post-partition lit & authorial politics. current research and writing at https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/. she/her.
@maryjeffers.bsky.social @maryjeffers.bsky.social 
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
Kaitlyn Hashem @kaithashem.bsky.social Writer/editor. Columbia Journalism and Georgetown alumna. Currently writing a book for Bloomsbury about Arabic in the USA titled “A Broken Plural.”