Astrid Menz
Turcologist, Head Librarian Orient-Institut Istanbul, personal account
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1741-3250
@erdemsonmez.bsky.social
History | Historians | Historiography | Middle East | Ottoman Empire | Turkey erdemsonmez.academia.edu
@theoknights.bsky.social
PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
@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
@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
@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-schofie
@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"
@krebsverena.bsky.social
Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German Fixed-Term Professor. GIF lover. Getting better at remembering this app exists.
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
Hier berichtet der Stab Kommunikation aus der Arbeit von über die aktuelle Forschung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI). Impressum: http://dainst.org/impressum
@majnouna.bsky.social
Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Beirut émigré in London. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… All the links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
@mchidarazvi.bsky.social
Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
@drsambowker.bsky.social
Academic. Art Historian. Regional Australian. Egyptian Tentmakers and Shadow Theatre.
@slamislamicart.bsky.social
Sharing artworks from the Islamic Art department of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@omabarr.bsky.social
Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A. Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
@cageinbeakifly.bsky.social
The cage opened the door. It shook and squeezed, disinterested in my fall or flight. My friends! I shook out my fine feathers. These plumes are my pens. On written words and turned clay, On winged water and pressed sound I now fly.
@jwbenson.bsky.social
Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.
@bmislamicarts.bsky.social
Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@cmaislamic.bsky.social
Sharing public domain works from the Islamic Art department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@ladanakbarnia.bsky.social
Museum curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (and formerly at The British Museum and Brooklyn Museum), San Diego County Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Curator of Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World (2024-25)
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
@drfayrouzibrahim.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Art Historian specializing in the Medieval period of the Mediterranean basin, with a focus on sacred art and architecture, material culture, and the early Islamic periods.
@menalibahs.bsky.social
Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
@cevahirulebrar.bsky.social
MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford. Ottoman architecture and the lands of Mâverâünnehir. Ertegun Graduate Scholar in the Humanities, Khalili Research Centre+St Cross College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@samueljhirst.bsky.social
Historian, author of *Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939.* Bilkent University, Department of International Relations. https://www.samueljhirst.com
@istanbultelaviv.bsky.social
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Author of Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a new book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Also writes for Haaretz and more.
@jdryan08.bsky.social
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
@superoldgranny.bsky.social
Singaporean historian studying the Ottoman empire at UCLA @OttomanChoon on twitter
@erikcharlemagne.bsky.social
Columbia Ph.D. // Ottoman and Iranian History // Other Random Stuff
@lediona.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in history at the University of Michigan; I study migration, population exchanges, the Balkans, and the post-Ottoman world.
@harunb.bsky.social
Raised between SJJ and DTW. Balkans, Ottomans, and deadpan humor. History Ph.D. via Columbia. Recovering academic. Twitter muhadžir.
@robbyref.bsky.social
Historian of MENA and conspiracy theories: run, officiate basketball, editor JQ #podcaster 'If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike' (cit.) Looking for a job.
@sezenunluonen.bsky.social
I write novels. I work on Anglo-Ottoman literary interactions in the nineteenth century. https://iletisim.com.tr/kisi/sezen-unluonen/11719 https://www.instagram.com/sezen.unluonen/
@jwripple.bsky.social
Essex born, Manx resident. Very old. Sourdough, Islamic/Christian art and architecture; gypsies; polyphony; migration of people and music around Europe and the Middle East.
@seandlawrence.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, SUITS MENA History and Politics Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy. Also block folks who tell me my border collie is akshually a kelpie
@mesutuyar.bsky.social
Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
@vitticomacchi.bsky.social
Intellectual historian | Soon Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI & Universität Hamburg | 16C antiquarianism, Ottoman/European imperialism, Arabic manuscripts, Jews in Italy
@ydogancetinkaya.bsky.social
✌️İstanbul Üniversitesi SBF Faculty of Political Sciences- Özgür Üniversite (Free University)- Tarih ve Toplum Yeni Yaklaşımlar dergisi (History and Society journal) - Toplumsal Tarih (Social History) - https://istanbul.academia.edu/YDoganCetinkaya
@lalehjoon.bsky.social
Brooklynite, CUNY professor, trying to balance work on exile with some daily doses of beauty. Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) https://rb.gy/8likn
@bsbilgic.bsky.social
(MA&PhD)-Political History, International Affairs, U.S. Foreign Relations, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Islam - https://independent.academia.edu/BestamiBilgic Houston, TX
@drnrts.bsky.social
phd candidate in history & middle eastern studies at harvard. writing my dissertation on mining, capital, and state formation in the Ottoman Empire.
@mrfarzanegan.bsky.social
Professor of Economics of the Middle East, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies(CNMS), CESifo Research Network Fellow, ERF Research Fellow & Advisory Committee Member, IIEA Executive Secretary (2023-2025)
@pierke.bsky.social
Avid reader and book indexer. Specialised in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, and Asian studies but also in general history and art. Loves cooking (and eating) and nature photography, especially creepy-crawlies.
@laurafish.bsky.social
Acquisitions Editor at Syracuse University Press. PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.