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
@hannahgurman.bsky.social @hannahgurman.bsky.social 
@fkafeety.bsky.social @fkafeety.bsky.social 
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social Prof in New York, studies broken media, capitalism and anti-colonial futures.
Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social 🇵🇸 ✊🏾 (posts by Bhakti Shringarpure)
https://radicalbookscollective.substack.com/
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
Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish.bsky.social مؤرخ. محرّر. رقّاص
Historian | Editor | Dancer
Author of "The State of Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies at New York University
- MA Program in Near Eastern Studies
- Public Programs
- K-12 Outreach Teacher Training
- National Resource Center
linktr.ee/NYUKevo
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social anthropologist, editor at mcmaster university. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (https://fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-hb-9781531510312.html). bookmarking in the wasteland
Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF researching stories of displacement in Syria & Scotland at the University of Edinburgh
@Mary-The-Cat.bsky.social ( I'm MaryPG Keating) @mary-the-cat.bsky.social Constantly evolving or devolving.
Usually terrorism. MENA. Also crime. Animals. COFFEE.
Many viruses-#MasksProtect
Where do we go from here?
See Elements of Crimes ICC. https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Elements-of-Crimes.pdf
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
KaosDevice @kaosdevice.bsky.social he/him
games, politics, books, comics, kindness, weirdness
BuddhActivistFreePalestineCompassionAlways @buddhactivist.bsky.social "We are not afraid of love; from the river to the sea"
--Fady Joudah 'Dedication' 2023
"Colonialism decivilizes & brutalizes the colonizer"
-Aimé Césaire
"Art is that which takes something real +makes it more real than it was before"
-Kenojuak Ashevak
GPG
Avgi Saketopoulou @avgi.bsky.social Cypriot and Greek immigrant, psychoanalyst, motorcycle enthusiast, Bataille lover. Protect trans kids! Free Palestine!
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.)
Lindsey Moore @lcmoore.bsky.social Postcolonialist, writer, reader, dog servant, off and on Arabic learner, riding the UK academia rollercoaster, kiwi at heart
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
Maqlouba Flip 🪶🍓 @meryembadran.bsky.social Veritable #SWANA fattoush (🇱🇧🇵🇸& Suriye) & #humanist; adept in a Shami kitchen & grateful for Peruvian chefs. Fierce music head, always #jazz but currently French #rappelles. #Literature #culture #rebels #reparations #blacksky🪶✊🏼
Alda Benjamen @aldabenjamen.bsky.social 
Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu
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
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
aam @alialtafmian.bsky.social 
Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social Reporter for Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points
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
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
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
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Sophus Helle 𓂆 @sophushelle.bsky.social Translator of Gilgamesh and Enheduana
NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social NYU FSJP supports Palestinian liberation, the protection of Pro-Palestine academic speech on campus, and the academic boycott of Israel. IG: NYU_FSJP 🇵🇸
linktr.ee/nyu_fsjp
Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social Journalist, non-resident fellow at CIP @cipolicy.bsky.social, editor of @Hidden-Cities.com
Previously: Founding executive editor, Democracy in Exile @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social; managing editor @wpr.bsky.social; staff editor @foreignaffairs.com
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Rana Mikati @rana-mikati.bsky.social Beiruti, historian, ex-archaeologist
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
The Intercept @theintercept.com Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
Bassam Haddad @4bassam.bsky.social Co-Founder/Editor, Jadaliyya.com, ArabStudiesInstitute.org, Founding Director, GMU Middle East & Islamic Studies
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social Historian. Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9