Global Muslim Studies
Academics and activists involved in global studies of Muslim communities.
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@mcneilwillson.bsky.social
@profmabon.bsky.social
Professor of International Politics, author, podcaster. Lancaster University. SEPAD. Sectarianism, geopolitics, sovereignty, nomos, political theory. The Struggle for Supremacy (CUP) Houses built on sand (MUP) Saudi & Iran (IB Tauris)
@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
@mariannedhe.bsky.social
crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer | contributing writer at Truthout and Yes! Magazine | marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@hizmir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient. Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
@thediegogarcia.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham ✨ | Founder & Host of the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium & Podcast 🎙️ | Exploring the intersections of LGBTIQ+ asylum, faith, and health across borders 🌍 | Indonesia 🇮🇩 | Free 🇵🇸
@marinegueguin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Security Studies and IR at Leeds Beckett Uni | PhD in Security Studies at Uni of Leeds | Research Interests: Terrorism, Counterterrorism & Decolonial CT, France, Sahel | Co-host and co-creator of Insecure: A Security Podcast
@moravvej.bsky.social
Neurodivergent SWANA mother of 2 neurodivergent (AuDHD & ADHD) artistic, beautiful souls | Autism Advocate & Researcher | Passionate about intersectional neurodiversity-affirming research & care | Navigating the world through the lens of social justice
@sheamabdulaziz.bsky.social
Researcher in Qur’ān Exegesis and Translation. BA in Islamic Law. MA in Tafsīr and Qur’anic Sciences.
@herazhar.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum | War & influence in digital age | Prev: York + LSE, 🗞️, CVE policy | Sandwiches, cats, duvet caves | Really just all over the place | Views mine
@saleemaburney.bsky.social
Academic mom| Sociologist of Religion| Interests: people, places and seeking justice…
@mshwaikh.bsky.social
Based at the University of St Andrews where I research prisons, hunger strikes, limits of resilience, and decoloniality. Talk with me about sunsets and hikes.
@aidahas.bsky.social
postdoc @kings-sga.bsky.social. PhDing @qmul.ac.uk. critical global health, ethics, IR/postcolonial theory.
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement jasminekgani.wordpress.com
@drbenwhitham.bsky.social
Senior Policy and Research Officer at Refugee Action | Research Associate at SOAS | Assistant Instructor at Tiger Crane Kung Fu, London | Trade unionist, martial artist, antifascist. Views my own. https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/ben-whitham
@frasermcqueen.bsky.social
Lecturer in French Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol. Islamophobia & cultural production in France. Retired ex-Thai boxer. Co-convener @psafrenchpol.bsky.social He/him.
@thecynicist.bsky.social
Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names. Previously HRW, ICTJ, Amnesty, OSF and ECFR. Always clean on OPSEC. "All the pieces matter."
@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 🇬🇧
@karakmufti.bsky.social
Know a few things about global Palestine in Asia and Africa. Sometimes political economist. World's foremost scholar of karak chai. Trying to finish a PhD in our glorious Southwestistan (formerly known as Devonshire). Contact: Abdullasm@proton.me
@martijn5155.bsky.social
Anthropologist: Muslim youth in Europe, Islamophobia, salafism, marriage, activism. Dept.Islam, Politics and Society Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands http://ru.nl/islamstudies; https://religionresearch.org/closer
@zaz.bsky.social
professor of international relations | studies armed conflict and social change
@garyrbunt.bsky.social
Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com
@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.
@leilamhb.bsky.social
Sociology of Higher Education & International Relations • Race and Decolonization • Radical pedagogies for reparative futures • Lecturer
@iainoverton.bsky.social
⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence 📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise 📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun ☞ PhD for war-reporting ☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
@lillybarker.bsky.social
PhD researcher @ Nottingham Trent University & Associate Lecturer @ Arden University Leeds | Researching ‘Prevent’ in post-16 education & critical race feminism
@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
@zahira.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Management University of Sussex Business School 🇮🇹🇵🇸 Director Sussex MBA Views mine! Repost&likes≠endors. Against all war crimes & #antipalestinianracism #غزة👀
@amnakaleem.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Univ of Sheffield Politics. Co-convenor, BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Talk to me about counter-terrorism and communities. She/Her. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/amna-kaleem
@sarahgharib.bsky.social
PhD student at St Andrews - studying narratives of terrorism, immigration, race, gender and religion through a postcolonial feminist approach.
@nawalabu72.bsky.social
Lecturer in the politics of race & decolonial studies / IR lover researching terror & migration-security/ Black Muslim feminist killjoy | https://colouredacademia.wordpress.com
@tbdwi.bsky.social
Analyst & field practitioner | Violent conflicts, climate, & governance. چا تره تامر مو ثامر Tamerbadawi.org
@naeemibnf.bsky.social
⚽️ Intersection of football, power & strategy 📚 Books 🏋🏽♂️ Constantly on side missions 💼 Chief Operating Officer @ social mobility charity
@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
@rrgould.bsky.social
Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
@blondearabist.bsky.social
@davidwearing.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously). Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
@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.
@jairofunez.bsky.social
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring... dignity.
@carlgibson.bsky.social
📚 Researcher in Critical Terrorism Studies and Palestinian security politics | 💼 Assistant Professor of IR | Often in 🇵🇸 | Views own (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@drhahellyer.bsky.social
‣ Senior Associate Fellow - Geopolitics, Security @ Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) ‣ Fmr: Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Harvard Kennedy School ‣ Specialise in MENA ◘ Europe ◘ SE-Asia
@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
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@asimqureshi.bsky.social
Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
@drkelshayyal.bsky.social
Academic interested in faith, identity, politics, activism, culture of Muslims in the west. Author: Muslim Identity Politics (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/muslim-identity-politics-9781838602048/)
@silviacarenzi.bsky.social
باحثة دكتوراه في العلوم السياسية، تتركز بحوثي ع سوريا والفصائل العسكرية والحركات الإسلامية Finishing PhD @ Scuola Normale. Syria & SWANA/MENA – armed groups & conflicts; Islamic movements & contentious politics; critical approaches to political violence
@jeromed.bsky.social
Senior analyst on Jihad and Modern Conflict at International Crisis Group (ICG). Associate at Graduate Institute Geneva. Interested in armed groups. Books on Jihad in Egypt and Syria (openaccess). Forthcoming book on HTS
@naazrashid.bsky.social
University of Sussex, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies IG hungrytiger71 she/her
@mcneilwillson.bsky.social
Lecturer in critical extremism and global Muslim studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Academic vagabond. Scottish Greens member. e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu