Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
UCL Middle East Research Centre @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social A focal point for in-depth research on the Middle East and North Africa, and its intersection with the wider world, from antiquity to the present. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/middle-east-research-centre
Mike Raybourne - Mehelle @mikeraybourne.bsky.social Alternative archivist and tactical hauntologist.
Research fellow in Sacred Spaces at Dominican University
Two new projects soon at mehelle.org
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Journal of Muslims in Europe @muslimsineurope.bsky.social The Journal of Muslims in Europe is devoted to publishing articles dealing with contemporary issues on Islam and Muslims in Europe from all disciplines https://brill.com/view/journals/jome/jome-overview.xml 
Ali Doğan Gönültaş @alidogangonultas.bsky.social Şey
@musicrepublic.bsky.social @musicrepublic.bsky.social I launched my MusicRepublic blog to share my passion for the great traditional and folk musics of the world, very much at risk of being lost or forgotten.
GINA NÄUMAN • جینا نعمان @entertheunseen.bsky.social Writer. Seeker. Alchemist. Mystic. Sufi.
Radically re-imagining psychospiritual paradigms.
she/her/parī 𓄅
https://linktr.ee/gina_nauman.
27.7K on Twitter/X
For 1:1 mentorship & energy work: entertheunseen@gmail.com
Sarah Bakker Kellogg @sbakkerkellogg.bsky.social Ethnographer, Reproductive Laborer, and Student of the Syriac World
INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) @informreligion.bsky.social Independent educational charity providing information on minority religions, sects, spiritualities and 'cults', which is as accurate, up-to-date and as evidence-based as possible.
linktr.ee/InformReligion
Exeter Food @exeterfood.bsky.social A University of Exeter research network exploring the role of food in human life and developing solutions to today’s most pressing food challenges.
Join us: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/networks/exeterfood/
The Society of Turkic, Ottoman & Turkish Studies @gtot.bsky.social Editor of Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies (nomos.de/en/journals/diyar)
Host of the Turkologentag
Welcoming all Students and Scholars of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
David Beriss @davidberiss.bsky.social anthropology, food, France, New Orleans, bicycling, this list is silly
@annikaschmeding.bsky.social @annikaschmeding.bsky.social Anthropologist. Senior Researcher at Netherlands Academy of Science and Lecturer at University of Amsterdam
Author: Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan & Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences
Ajam Media Collective @ajammc.bsky.social Ajam is a platform focused on culture, history, and politics across Ajamistan: West, Central, and South Asia. Check out our latest articles and podcasts on the website: ajammc.com
Slow Food @slowfoodhq.bsky.social Good, clean and fair food is a human right. We are the global movement fighting to make it accessible to all.
📩 Get our newsletters http://bit.ly/3KLBqzr
Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social We are an #openaccess #encyclopedia of social and cultural #anthropology. Our entries are written by experts and peer reviewed. We aim to make anthropology accessible for everyone. Find us at www.anthroencyclopedia.com
elDiario.es @eldiario.es Periodismo a pesar de todo. Hazte socio, hazte socia http://usuarios.eldiario.es/hazte_socio
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
Check out my Substack FLANÖR
flanor.substack.com
Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
ruth.michaelson@observer.co.uk
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com
www.ruthmichaelson.com
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Kenan Behzat Sharpe @kenansharpe.bsky.social @keymanmts.bsky.social / Assistant Professor at Sabancı University 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist 📝 / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 🎶
Al-MONITOR @almonitor.bsky.social Independent and trusted coverage of the Middle East, providing unique insight on the trends & events shaping the region from top journalists in the region
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
Turkey Book Talk @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social Conversations with authors on Turkey and its region. Episodes every two weeks with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social + guests
Latest episodes: https://turkeybooktalk.com
Subtack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com
Patreon: http://patreon.com/user?u=2998854
Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social İstanbul via London, Cambridge, Bristol & Göreme. Author: Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell & assorted guidebooks. Cat lover. Painted trafo fan. 
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. Turkish in Vienna. Making a difference. Since 1541.
📍University of Vienna
🔗 https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/
Jenny White @whitejenny.bsky.social Social anthropologist, novelist. Write about Turkish history, culture, politics, religion, gender, nationalism. Also Ottoman Empire (fiction). Emerita, live in Sweden. Love good literature, nature, science, art. jennywhite.net #Writer
Apaçık Radyo @apacikradyo.com.tr Bazı şeyler bir türlü kapanmak bilmiyor.
apacikradyo.com.tr/mobil-uygulama
destek.acikradyo.com.tr
Bárbara Ruiz Bejarano @barbarabejarano.bsky.social Dra en Estudios Islámicos. Andalusíes, mudéjares, moriscos. Patrimonio Islámico Europeo. Coordinadora de la Red de Medinas Andalusíes (www.visitalandalus.org). Directora de la Fundación Las Fuentes (The Sources Foundation)
Catalina Gómez Angel @catapluma.bsky.social Corresponsal en Oriente Medio con base en Irán. Desde 2022 paso parte del tiempo también en Ucrania. @France24_es @Lavanguardia @rfi_es
Luz Gómez @luzgomez.bsky.social Catedrática de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de @UAM_Madrid. Autora de “Diccionario de islam e islamismo”. Traductora de Mahmud Darwish. Escribo en @el_pais y otros medios
Rosa Meneses @rosameneses10.bsky.social Subdirectora del Centro de Estudios Árabes Contemporáneos (CEARC).
Periodista y analista experta en Oriente Medio y Magreb.
Journalist and analyst expert in Middle East and North Africa.
Ochberg Fellow at Global Center for Journalism & Trauma.
Kenan Cruz Çilli @kenancruzcilli.bsky.social London-based writer & analyst | Interested in history, languages, cultures of Ottoman Empire & Turkey 
elDiario.es Cultura @eldiariocultura.bsky.social Somos la sección de Cultura de @elDiario.es | @lghigueras.bsky.social @elenacabrera.bsky.social @jzurro.bsky.social @fgamizp.bsky.social
News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed.
➔ https://newsaboutturkey.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Lara Sarlak @larasarlak.bsky.social PhD Anthropology (they/she) | waste and recycling, migration, urban infrastructures, drugs, substance use, social policy, ethnographic films, Turkey.
Filip Almansour Holm @itsfilipholm.bsky.social I make/play music. (Zini/Filip Holm)
I study religion(s).
I make videos about religion(s). (Let's Talk Religion @Youtube)
I eat falafel.
Sufi Spirituality @naqshbandismc.bsky.social Unofficial account for www.nurmuhammad.com
Spiritual teachings by Sheikh Nurjan Mirahmadi of Sufi Meditation Center of North America
See also Muhammadan Way YouTube channel; Muhammadan Way phone app.
Email helpme@nurmuhammad.com to interact
Maria Marsh @mariasolemarsh.bsky.social Middle Eastern & African studies, Publisher, Cambridge University Press. All views are mine.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham @dwidmannabraham.bsky.social Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen
she/her
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
Seyma Kabaoglu @skabaoglu.bsky.social PhD Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
Sufism on Bluesky @sufism.bsky.social Curator of conversations about Sufism, amplifying progressive Islamic voices on Bluesky.
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"
Cyrus Ali Zargar @czargar.bsky.social Al-Ghazali Professor at UCF's Department of Philosophy
Ali Yaycıoğlu @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social Professor of History - Stanford University. Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mideast & Turkey. Columnist Gazete Oksijen. Draws imaginary cities and landscapes 👉🏽 instagram.com/aliyaycioglu
https://history.stanford.edu/people/ali-yaycioglu
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/
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
William Rees Hofmann @wrhofmann.bsky.social Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat
https://friedlindriedel.de/
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
Dr Thomas Graves @thomasgraves.bsky.social Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
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
Jeff Titon @jefftoddtiton.bsky.social Professor of Music Emeritus, Brown University. Ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, folklore. New book: Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford U Press 2023). Old book: Toward a Sound Ecology (Indiana U Press 2020). Essays at https://brown.academia.edu/JeffToddTiton
Sinem Eylem Arslan @iamsinema.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto Ethnomusicology | Researches gendered and racialized sonic contemporary spiritual circles in North America.
Vivek Virani @vivekvirani.bsky.social Scholar, performer, and teacher of spiritual music drawing from traditions of South Asia and around the world. Ethnomusicologist (whatever that means) at UNT College of Music.
Jeffers Engelhardt @jengelhardt.bsky.social Come for the: music & sound studies, Amherst College, Yale Journal of Music & Religion. Stay for the: family pics, Western Mass, Eesti asjad.
Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social BOOK: https://www.dukeupress.edu/together-somehow
I party so you don't have to. He/him, with notable exceptions. Gay affinity animal: capybara. Opinions are epiphenomena of discourse and power—and also my own.
theluisgarcia.Carrd.co
Oula Kadhum @oulakadhum.bsky.social Diasporic lives, migration, transnational politics and religion. Leverhulme Fellow @SOAS working on Russian anti-war diaspora.
Lover of food, literature, wine and all things fine.
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/oulakadhum
Omid Safi @brotheromid.bsky.social Islamic studies prof (Duke U). Jedi-wannabe.
Rumi, Martin, Malcolm, and my Momma's love.
Leads spiritually oriented Turkey & Morocco, Spain & Umrah.
Teaches online http://illuminatedcourses.com
Carlos Ortega Sánchez @cortegaist.bsky.social Ph.D. | Turkey, politics, religion | SP/EN/TR/AR
📍İstanbul, Türkiye
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
Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard @harvardislamic.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.
islamicstudies.harvard.edu
Society for Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social Society for Ethnomusicology Business Office
www.ethnomusicology.org
Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is a global leader in multidisciplinary research on forced migration.
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk
Connect with us: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/forms/general/connect
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org