Open Islamicate Texts Initiative
Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org
Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
@noraepstein.bsky.social
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian ❧ Postdoc fellow with @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social ❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles ❧ she/her ❧ all opinions my own
@mervet.bsky.social
Turkish/Arabic/Anglophone SF ☆ climate change ☆ urban futures ☆ petro-cultures ☆ #envhum Lecturer in Comparative Literature @ Utrecht University Researcher @ CoFutures Editor-in-chief @ Fafnir https://mervetabur.com
@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!
@fauxneem.bsky.social
comparative literature, film and visual culture, middle east studies / literary, cinematic, philosophical, and bibliographic voyeurism / cats, donkeys, dogs, bunny rabbits, fuzzy creatures
@ahmednaji.bsky.social
Writer, Novelist, Documentary Filmmakers, Criminal, ex-journalist. More about his crimes: http://linktr.ee/anaji ahmednaji.net
@fadizaghmout.bsky.social
Jordanian feminist Scifi author of 5 novels. The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, LAILA, The Man of Middling Height, Hope on Earth.
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25 https://www.soniasulaiman.com
@sinanantoon.bsky.social
Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, academic sinanantoon.com
@yarahawari.bsky.social
Palestinian writer & co-director for Al Shabaka. Podcast host of Rethinking Palestine & author of The Stone House (She/Her). Opinions expressed are my own.
@amalelmohtar.com
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War. Next book: The River Has Roots, March 4, 2025. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
@lailalalami.com
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Convener, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network / Judge, James Tait Black Prize (Fiction)
@lcmoore.bsky.social
Postcolonialist, writer, reader, dog servant, off and on Arabic learner, riding the UK academia rollercoaster, kiwi at heart
@susanmd.bsky.social
Novelist 📚 BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA (Harper Collins, Jan 2024) 🌟 FARAH ROCKS series (Capstone Books) 🏆American Book Award. Teaches creative writing @ Johns Hopkins Univ. She/her 🇵🇸 www.SusanMDBooks.com
@balaghas.bsky.social
Global Literary Theory on @medium.com brings world literatures into comparison. EIC @rrgould.bsky.social. We began life as an ERC Grant (2018-2024). We now post content related to comparative poetics. https://medium.com/global-literary-theory
@elgendy95.bsky.social
Egyptian writer and translator from Cairo. Author of HUNA, forthcoming from Hogarth, Penguin Random House. https://www.abdelrahmanelgendy.com/
@itsdeenasaur.bsky.social
Egyptian comics artist and writer. Shubeik Lubeik in English (2023) and Arabic (2021). Sleepy and tired.
@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
@bulaqbooks.bsky.social
Book-centric podcast co-hosted by Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey. Produced by Sowt. Email bulaq@sowt.com.
@warghetti.bsky.social
Writer, translator, Beiruter & now part-time Montrealer. Senior editor at The Markaz review.
@chelsabdullah.bsky.social
Quirky Writer l she/her l Author of THE STARDUST THIEF (Orbit) l Next: THE ASHFIRE KING (April 15, 2025) l 🇰🇼 + 🇺🇸 l Rep: Jennifer Azantian
@baladimagazine.bsky.social
Exploring the Past, Engaging the Present, Imagining the Future. #Palestine #Gaza #Sudan #Congo #Indigenous #Solarpunk #Futurism Art Aya Ghanameh. Editor @LaylaAzmiGoushey.bsky.social “Identity is fluid" - Ruth Ann Skaff
@laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social
Prof. English. MFA Fiction. M.A. History. PhD Teaching/Learning. Sci-Fi/Fntsy, Arab American. Secular Humanist. Palestine 🇵🇸. Cats #UAPsky / #UFOsky 👀.
@deenahelm.bsky.social
author • palestinian • she/her • rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
@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
@emanquotah.bsky.social
Novelist, essayist, comms professional -- author of BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House)
@intifadabatata.bsky.social
Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
@hichouman.bsky.social
5 Ar novels: ma rawahu alnawm, napolitana (2010), Limbo Beirut (2012 - EN Trans. Sep 2016), Kana Ghadan (2016), Hozn Fee Qalby (2022). I always share ETAs.
@deltahead.bsky.social
⭐️ Award-winning artist, game dev, + writer 📚 Nayra and the Djinn, Mis(h)adra 💙 Sonic the Hedgehog™️ (comics & animation) 🌱 Snotgirl (letters) 📝 Views r my own ✨ have a good day 🖋️ iasminomarata.com 📨 deltacanwork@gmail.com 💬 they/them
@tarikd.xyz
assistant professor of English (creative writing-poetry) | running poetry.onl | poems: Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024); Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, 2026) | 🏳️🌈🇱🇧🇸🇾 | 🇵🇸
@nadiashammas.bsky.social
Palestinian-American writer, narrative designer, and award-winning wretch. She/They. From Brooklyn, now Toronto. GAMES: THIRSTY SUITORS, THE AXIS UNSEEN COMICS: SQUIRE, WHERE BLACK STARS RISE, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT
@remikanazi.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
@ysl.bsky.social
#Author of WHAT REMAINS TO BE SAID (2025), #PALESTINE WAIL🇵🇸 (2024) & 11 other #books of aphorisms, #poetry, essays & conversations. #writingcommunity #writer #booksky YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi
@omarsakr.bsky.social
Queer Muslim, Arab-Turkish Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). Greens candidate for Blaxland. https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr
@natashatynes.bsky.social
Jordanian- American author, journalist, podcaster and ghostwriter.
@jordanelgrably.bsky.social
Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReview
@qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
@eliasjahshan.bsky.social
Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (Saqi Books; 2022) | Your fave Palestinian Baba in London | 🇱🇧&🇵🇸; born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney) | He/him | الياس جهشان https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-arab-is-queer/
@safiyacherfi.bsky.social
Writes stories: short, literary, historical, sometimes speculative | Stories found in Gutter Magazine, The Selkie & more | Working on a collection | Love languages & history | Editor of Overtly Lit 🕊️🇵🇸🏴 https://linktr.ee/safiyacherfi
@nadiaelfassi.bsky.social
SFF and Horror Commissioning Editor at Orbit. Author of Best Hex Ever (out now) 🌈 Love at First Fright out Sep 25. Rep’d by Maddy Belton
@alaaal-barkawi.bsky.social
✨YA Author of IN THE COUNTRY I LOVE (Peachtree Teen, Summer 2026) ✨Co-runner of QuillersSwana ✨Shia Muslim ✨Iraqi 🇮🇶 ✨Rep: Jenissa Graham @ Bookends Literary