MENALIB

@jwbenson.bsky.social

Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.

@nphellstrom.bsky.social

Historian of Science, Ideas and Intellectual Culture

@moudhy.bsky.social

Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book is now out! 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers

@lameensouag.bsky.social

Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and soon Nilotic...)

@aghowes.bsky.social

Peripatetic postdoctoral scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.

@abujamajem.com

Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. Century International Fellow. Former Crisis Group. "Jamajem" means ☠️. www.abujamajem.com

@mbazzi.bsky.social

NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday. https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/

@khalilandani.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Religion, scholar is Islamic Studies, Quranic studies, Ismailism, Sufism, and Muslim Philosopher of Religion

@libreriabalqis.bsky.social

Librería especializada en Oriente Próximo y África.También sala de exposiciones de la Galería Sura. Fotografía+libros www.libreriabalqis.es Arganzuela

@mduperouzel.bsky.social

Dealer in digital artefacts of Byzantium. Writer of invective and diatribe. Unapologetic Theodora stan. DPhil Candidate in History at Oxford. Making Byzantium Great Again! empressofbyzantium.substack.com

@biryani4ever.bsky.social

PhD candidate at the University at Buffalo | 20th-21st south asian literature, book history, community archives, zoroastrianism, parsi writing, diaspora, oral history, biryani

@meliteratures.bsky.social

A forum for the academic study of all Middle Eastern Literatures (broadly conceived) from Late Antiquity until the present. Critical work welcome!

@michaelnuding.bsky.social

Doctoral Candidate @UniFAU @FESonline 🏛️ | Politics in WANA 🌍 | Arabic student 📚 | Socialist & Democrat🌹| Antifa ✊🏼 | Berlin based 🌆 | @Villigst | er/he

@ccbaxter1968.bsky.social

He/Him, Middle East/modern Egyptian History, political economy, monetary history, PhD Student at UCSB, podcasts about film at http://politicsofcinema.libsyn.com

@yazanbadran.bsky.social

Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran

@maxgallien.bsky.social

Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧

@norajaber.bsky.social

Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World. University of Edinburgh. Critical approaches to international law & human rights, Islamic law, feminist theory.

@azelin.bsky.social

Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” jihadology.net jihadologyplus.com

@hadillababidi.bsky.social

Theologian I PhD in Islamic-religious Studies I @University of Zurich I Islam, medical ethics, dementia https://www.hadil-lababidi.de/

@jbprestel.bsky.social

Historian of Europe & the Middle East | author, Emotional Cities (OUP, 2017) | current project: Palestinians and the Radical Left in West Germany, 1956-1982

@bilgeyesil.bsky.social

Professor, Media Culture @CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies @CUNY Graduate Center. All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.

@thomasdiez.bsky.social

University of Tübingen professor interested in EU, Cyprus, Turkey, climate change, security, discourse, and all things IR. Love travel, nice hotels and good food.

@jricole.bsky.social

Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole

@ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social

Ottoman historian| author “Ottoman Passports- Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908” | FU-Berlin| DFG-PI

@giannisievers.bsky.social

Historian of colonialism, Islam & the performing arts in South Asia | Musician | Postdoc @ Utrecht University | PhD @ Penn https://www.uu.nl/staff/GSievers

@ayoub.bsky.social

I do @thefirethesetimes.com + co-founder @fromtheperiphery.com +Editor shado-mag.com + affiliate fellow @post-growth.bsky.social + Newsletter @ Hauntologies.net + @syriapodcast.bsky.social @thestartrekpod.bsky.social From 🇱🇧🇵🇸 in 🇬🇧

@ruppert-karakas.bsky.social

Authoritarianism, Syria, Political Theory / PhD / & research associate @GSI_Muenchen / bylines reviewintl disorient_do aljumhuriya_eng blaetter

@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)

@mchrislow.bsky.social

Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php

@sims-mss.bsky.social

We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together. https://schoenberginstitute.org/

@joelblecher.com

History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | ex-berliner, sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com

@monicacolominas.bsky.social

Professor of Islam in the Pre-Modern West, Prof. Dr., Rosalind Franklin Fellow, University of Groningen, Religious Minorities, Interreligious Disputes, Arabic and Aljamiado Manuscripts, Pre-modern Iberia and the Maghreb.

@fancynahyan.bsky.social

Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry

@profirmf.bsky.social

tired Islam, South Asia, race, & religion professor. podcaster. parent. enthusiastic killjoy. drama & drag & bad movie fan. adoptee. occasional TikTokker. she/her. (specifics @ profirmf.com)

@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://ias.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan

@janvoemel.bsky.social

Global History, History of Modern Turkey and Indonesia, Islamism, nativist movements, religions, gender, intellectual history Occasionally: golden age rap, food, travel, and other fun things PDFs of my articles: https://uni-konstanz.academia.edu/JanVomel

@corinnaehlers.bsky.social

Grenzgängerin Theologie/Bibliothekswesen im FID Theologie der UB Tübingen, Fernstudium MA.LIS an der HU Berlin. Außerdem: Christentumsgeschichte, Editionen, Alte Drucke. Fediverse: corinnaehlers@openbiblio.social. Privater Account.

@jmwillis.bsky.social

Historian, Kentuckian. Stuff about Yemen, S. Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and all things guitar . . . https://www.johnwillishistory.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@WalthomstowC/featured https://johnmwillis.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine

@michaelpbrill.bsky.social

Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University | Non-Resident Fellow in the USAF Institute for Future Conflict | Former Global Fellow in the Wilson Center History & Public Policy Program

@dwidmannabraham.bsky.social

Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen she/her

@laurentbonnefoy.bsky.social

Researcher in political science/CNRS/CERI Sciences Po (https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr) Yemen, Oman focus Orient XXI (https://orientxxi.info/) Arabian Humanities (https://journals.openedition.org/cy/)

@amarmustafa.bsky.social

I read a lot | Research MENA women's history - ig: @banatarchive | Research MENA working class and Arab Left history | All opinions are my own.

@curtisryan.bsky.social

Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University. IR. Middle East politics. Music fanatic. A bit too obsessed with Jordan and with Arab and Middle East alliances and politics. Section Chair, APSA Middle East and North African Politics section.

@jadaliyya.bsky.social

Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.

@geofffhughes.bsky.social

Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Lecturer in Anthropology and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

@chouhoud.bsky.social

Arab and Muslim public opinion, MENA, Religion & Politics, Race & Ethnicity Associate Professor, Political Science, Christopher Newport University إسكندراني / Brooklynite #YNWA www.chouhoud.com

@sfahrenthold.bsky.social

historian of Middle Eastern migration at UC Davis | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)

@thomasjuneau.bsky.social

Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.

@pomeps.bsky.social

Project on Middle East Political Science directed by Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark.bsky.social)

@kaohu11.bsky.social

Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi