North African Studies
A starter pack for all scholars studying North Africa
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@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
@geoffsonofjen.bsky.social
Historian of Spain, the military, the Maghreb, and war. VMI. I am not Geoffrey W. Jensen. Reposting or following is not necessarily an endorsement.
@sajidajalalzai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University who thinks, writes, and teaches about Islam in N.A., gender, race, power, and some other stuff. All opinions are my own. 🍉
@campvolant.bsky.social
historien, sites histoirecoloniale.net et 1000autres.org ; "Le Pen et la torture. Alger 1957, l'histoire contre l'oubli" (janvier 2024)
@maartenkossmann.bsky.social
Berber linguistics // linguistique amazighe // ⵜⵎⵓⵙⵏⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ Universiteit Leiden https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/maarten-kossmann
@lameensouag.bsky.social
Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and soon Nilotic...)
@katyphipps.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality and French colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol. Always nosy.
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social
historian colonialism | media | Orangina One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
@lamats.bsky.social
Historian of North Africa and the Middle East, interested in music, culture, (post)colonialism, race, the desert 🌵 Californian millennial Yonsei in Oregon 🌲
@sllanoa.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. Spanish @Manchester. Music of Spain and Morocco. Author of *Whose Spain* and *Discordant Notes*. Forthcoming book on Music and Race in Colonial Morocco
@maghribi.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at ACPPS, UM6P. Working on the Maghribi reception of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī. Mainly interested in Kalām, Islamic Philosophy, and Maghribi Intellectual History.
@ericcalderwood.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
@kranatalie.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Islamic Studies. Project: Prophetic descent of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and his descendants in the Western Maghrib and Syria. Genealogy, methods of genealogists & verification of historical/genealogical knowledge in the early modern period.
@baladria.bsky.social
Egyptologist ⛏writer ✍️ archaeogamer 🎮 38 👵🏻 OFMD 🏴☠️ AO3 @ Baladria - Egyptian OFMD art & essays - Please Let Me Hold You 🌵🦉 🔗: https://www.brianacjackson.com/biolinks
@kkoehler.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa; PI MENA-PERC project; research on political elites in MENA, particularly Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey. www.kevinkoehler.org
@soliman.bsky.social
Tech & Geopolitics & Business & EMEA. Director, Middle East Institute. Fellow @ FPRI & Third Way & Trilateral Commission. Charts & Maps. Book: West Asia (10/2025)
@emiliaflack.bsky.social
DPhil student at Uni of Oxford / Sciences Po Working on gender, communism and anticolonialism in colonial Algeria
@altuna.bsky.social
Mostly Islamism. North Africa & Sahel. Narratives and counternarratives. Senior Research Fellow at GWU Program on Extremism
@hamidouyachi.bsky.social
word matters, things related to language (focus on Moroccan Tamazight + Tashlḥiyt) translation, poetry, etc. words in: Rusted Radishes, Tamazgha Studies Journal, Words Without Borders. blog @ http://tagwrsa.blogspot.com
@mahosebiane.bsky.social
Anthropology of Music | CRAL-EHESS | Heritage Studies on the Margins | Afro-Arab Music History | Music & Slavery | Possession Rituals | MENA | Arab-Persian Gulf & Western Indian Ocean | Posts : Fr / Eng
@nerminallam.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Rutgers_Newark|Fellow @CarnegieEndow| Author of Women and the Egyptian Uprising(CUP) | Researching gender politics, Egypt, MENA, social movements
@khowaga.bsky.social
I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity. Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie | 👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10. Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you christophersrose.com
@erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
@karimwafa.bsky.social
Indigenous Writer. Historian. Lecturer & Poet. PhD in Southern African American History. I write about culture, identity, empire and books. Author of: child of a stolen homeland For more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
@jameslesueur.bsky.social
🎥Historian, Filmmaker, and Passionate Amateur Gardener @ https://www.foxhollowfilms.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10234302 Award-winning “The Art of Dissent” Streaming Everywhere. https://www.theartofdissentfilm.com
@khalidlym.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in French & Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago | Scholar | Writer | Literary Critic | Author of two novels : "Un roman étranger" (2017); "Évocation d'un mémorial à Venise" (2023) | Coeditor : "Abdelkébir Khatibi" (2020)
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@sebbachelet.bsky.social
Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
@afarrand.bsky.social
North Africa energy analyst | author of The Algerian Dream | American abroad
@wlacher.bsky.social
Political scientist with a longstanding interest in violent conflict, Libya and the Sahel. Author, Libya's Fragmentation (2020); co-editor, Violence and Social Transformation in Libya (2023). https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/researcher/wolfram-lacher
@brownisthecolor.bsky.social
prof @ UCSC. Black study, translational + transnational blackness, disaster, diaspora, Palestine. Fond of toast. Often bruised. she/they.
@bemutlu.bsky.social
Mostly into politics, religion, democracy, and parties in SWANA. Particularly watching Tunisia. PhDing @GWU
@sarasalem.bsky.social
assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
@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
@thenewarab.bsky.social
Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond. Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com https://www.newarab.com/
@aaronjakes.bsky.social
Assistant prof at UChicago history. Working on a book about the Suez Canal and global inequality. Mediocre saxophonist but always striving for improvement.
@omardfoda.bsky.social
Writer: Egypt, History, Beer http://omar.foda.family https://substack.com/@omardfoda
@omarcheta.bsky.social
Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • https://omarcheta.wordpress.com/
@merip.bsky.social
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
@gabrielglickman.bsky.social
PhD: Middle East Studies, @KingsCollegeLon. Research/Writing: history of international relations. Book: US-Egypt Diplomacy under Johnson (@IBTauris).
@monicamarks.bsky.social
Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA. 14 years writing on Tunisia. Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul.
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
Classics/Late Antiquity professor at UT Austin. Augustine/Cyprian/Ancient Letters/Imperial and Late Antique History. Disability advocate. Owned by cats. The Enemy.
@aburushdink.bsky.social
Political Science ▓▓▓▓▓▓ at ▓▓▓▓ University. ▓▓▓▓ Associate w/ ▓▓▓▓ Center for ▓▓▓▓ Studies. Non-Resident Fellow at ▓▓▓▓▓▓. Certain info withheld.
@lailalalami.com
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@drninastuder.bsky.social
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com
@lauan.bsky.social
PhDing on colonial class relations & intellectual history of Marxism in MENA & beyond... -based in Hamburg-
@jamesrmcd.bsky.social
Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
@skmiles.bsky.social
Historian of modern France, Québec, and the francophone world. Intellectual history, print and reading culture, and transnational militancy. Postdoctoral Fellow @ CRIDAQ & UQAM. https://sarahkmiles.wordpress.com/.
@eldrclaire.bsky.social
Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
@christophersilver.bsky.social
Historian, author of Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (SUP, 2022), collector of records, associate professor of Jewish history and culture at McGill University, curator of gharamophone.com
@jonathanwyrtzen.bsky.social
Studying empire, colonialism, decolonization, nation, collective identity, state formation, non-state political orders, Middle East / North Africa; Global Texas; sociologist and historian. Latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War
@donalh.bsky.social
Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
@tgpeterson.bsky.social
Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Curmudgeon. Associate Prof. No Tyrants, No Kings. Terrencepeterson.com https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
@laprofmme.bsky.social
Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford comma and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. Go Bills!
@pgoldsworthy.bsky.social
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism