Omar Abolnaga
PhD Candidate in History & Theory of Architecture & Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture | Investigating the discursive construction of the ʿashwaʾi space in Cairo | Host of Cairo Cast Podcast | He/him www.omarabolnaga.com
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MENA Writers and Academics
This is a list of authors, analysts, and academics whose work focuses on Middle Eastern cities and people. Interests vary, including history, politics, urbanism, ethnography, film, music, and pop culture.
@aymanmak.bsky.social
Anarcho-anxious. Mutual aid. Queer feminism. Cinema. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Blog Podcast: https://linktr.ee/poldeppod Mutual Aid Podcast: https://linktr.ee/mutualaidpodcast Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
@essssraaa.bsky.social
activist scholar in a committed relationship w/ collective liberation. working towards a world where all worlds fit @fromtheperiphery.com @mutualaidpod.bsky.social @thefirethesetimes.com gaza mutualaid: https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren
@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
@isa-sociology.org
Founded in 1949, International Sociological Association represents sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. Get to know us better at www.isa-sociology.org
@aliagvr.bsky.social
Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜Arab/Saudi Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRS
@allylouks.bsky.social
Working on olfactory ethics and teaching at Cambridge. ‘One of those academic types who turn to books as a substitute for social interaction’.
@ircpresident.bsky.social
Always looking forward. Ex (Biomedical and Telecommunication Engineer, AlMasry AlYoum, @GlobalVoices.org, @IFEX.org)
@emilieklefebvre.bsky.social
Anthropologist | Associate Researcher @McGill | DPhil @ Oxford | history, visual culture, digital practices, conflict | Photography and Making Bedouin Histories https://bit.ly/EKLeFebvre | http://www.emilieklefebvre.com
@srawcliffe.bsky.social
An Anthropologist, Masters student at Rutgers studying Peace & Conflict with a focus on the Perpetrators of the Middle East. My special area of study is the Levant.
@emilykmscott.bsky.social
Associate Professor, researcher, writer, advisor | humanitarianism, conflict, protection, IHL, health, migration & the Middle East | mostly 🇸🇾(+*) 🇱🇧 🇯🇴 | podcast co-host | #fulbright | emilykmscott.org Previously MSF, Carter Center, UNDP, GAC,…
@magedmandour.bsky.social
An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/egypt-under-elsisi-9780755649136/
@vqv.app
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@aliaibrahim.bsky.social
Journalist, mother and experimental entrepreneur. I co-founded Daraj, an independent media fully owned by journalists
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
@faisalhamadah.bsky.social
Dr/comrade د./رفيق. Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnationalism
@homophonous.bsky.social
Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
@gerthuskens.bsky.social
Historian | MENA North-South Public Health Cooperation | Postdoc at Utrecht University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
@omniakhalil.bsky.social
Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
@uclpress.bsky.social
UCL Press is the first fully #openaccess #universitypress in the UK. We are UCL's #openaccess publishing house. Reposting or liking ≠ endorsement.
@urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
@sdhaddow.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.
@mugeozoglu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University
@hyyppati.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher Univ Helsinki, civil wars, civilian agency, rebel governance, political violence, Syria. Member of board of NSMES and editorial board of Babylon.
@myrmek.bsky.social
Humanitarianism & refugees, past & present. All things Lebanon. Prof. International Migration Law, University of Oslo & Associate Fellow, American University of Beirut. Check out our graphic novel: cardboardcamp.net.
@manarisms.bsky.social
International aid and development. Conflict and peacebuilding. Posts on Middle East and North Africa, East Africa, conflict, human rights, social movements, political transitions. Views are my own.
@egyptoknuckles.bsky.social
Food & Music writer based in Minneapolis. Doing a lot, but never doing the most.
@karimeltaki.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Groningen • Middle East IR, regional and global ordering, sovereignty, recognition • PhD, Cambridge karimeltaki.com
@josephwillits.bsky.social
Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). http://instagram.com/josephwillits/ https://linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.
@tom-d.bsky.social
Writer, researcher: global politics, conflict, civilian protection: https://zeroline.substack.com/ Previously from Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon. @tom_d_ on X.
@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
@sadiahabib.bsky.social
Lecturer in Education at Univ of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test. #education #museums #cats Own views
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@carlitoscorazon.bsky.social
Joining the new American resistance! Here to fight for women, non-believers and religious minorities, the lgbt community, immigrants, black/brown/tan folk, veterans, first Americans, the elderly, and the disabled. We were ALL ALREADY great! 🇺🇸✊🏽
@nelhady.bsky.social
Architect building local narratives on climate change and biodiversity in Egypt
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@priester.bsky.social
Researcher in Sociology | fiw.uni-bonn.de | @rrcwisskomm.bsky.social
@thebigpharaoh.bsky.social
@monaharb.bsky.social
Professor of Urban Studies & Politics, American University of Beirut Co-Director, Beirut Urban Lab
@nouwahby.bsky.social
Urban researcher. Cairo always. Postdoc @CamUniGeography Previously w/ @CSIC_IKC @Dept_of_POLIS @Cambridge_uni. Back to @GAPP_AUC. Editing @araburbanism
@fabriziol.bsky.social
Currently at Dublin City University. Research on security, development, migration, (post)colonialism in Europe and the Mediterranean. Photography enthusiast, occasional runner. He/him
@mirandawmeyer.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Geography at CUNY Grad Center. Political geography of memory through territory & infrastructure (water, waste, heritage). Syria and Lebanon, mostly. Sometimes history/philosophy of science.