Jörg Matthias Determann
@determann.bsky.social
Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Associate Editor, Review of Middle East Studies. Book Review Editor, Journal of Arabian Studies. Author of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy." https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
I owe a large debt of gratitude to Sumaiya Hamdani for inviting me to speak at the conference of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at @georgemasonu.bsky.social on Muslim Futures on April 16 and 17, 2026. I also thank @pmandaville.bsky.social islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/17717
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I owe a large debt of gratitude to Sumaiya Hamdani for inviting me to speak at the conference of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at @georgemasonu.bsky.social on Muslim Futures on April 16 and 17, 2026. I also thank @pmandaville.bsky.social islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/17717
Un grand merci and a big thank you to Kevin Kaiser and Aaron Wright for allowing me to contribute to issue 107 of Communiqué, the magazine of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS): “Preserving the History of Women’s Activism in Science.” cshps.ca/wp-content/u...
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Un grand merci and a big thank you to Kevin Kaiser and Aaron Wright for allowing me to contribute to issue 107 of Communiqué, the magazine of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS): “Preserving the History of Women’s Activism in Science.” cshps.ca/wp-content/u...
Thank you for everything and ہر چیز کے لئے آپ کا شکریہ, @fouzsiddiqui.bsky.social ! I am deeply indebted to you and your colleagues at Scientia, and especially Saadeqa Khan, for organizing our webinar on activism in astronomy and for uploading a recording to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Nf...
January 23, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Thank you for everything and ہر چیز کے لئے آپ کا شکریہ, @fouzsiddiqui.bsky.social ! I am deeply indebted to you and your colleagues at Scientia, and especially Saadeqa Khan, for organizing our webinar on activism in astronomy and for uploading a recording to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Nf...
Kathar Allah Khayrak (كثر الله خيرك) and may God multiply your blessings, @emadscifi.bsky.social ky.social! Thank you for reviewing Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s and my edited volume Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life (@ibtauris.bsky.social) on The Liberum. theliberum.com/hotels-in-he...
January 16, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Kathar Allah Khayrak (كثر الله خيرك) and may God multiply your blessings, @emadscifi.bsky.social ky.social! Thank you for reviewing Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s and my edited volume Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life (@ibtauris.bsky.social) on The Liberum. theliberum.com/hotels-in-he...
I can’t thank you enough (میں آپ کا جتنا شکر ادا کروں کم), @fouzsiddiqui.bsky.social, for bringing me back as a speaker for Scientia’s Science Writing Internship. I will talk about Writing about Activism in Astronomy. I thank Saadeqa Khan for making this possible. meet.google.com/yti-zrpw-agm
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
I can’t thank you enough (میں آپ کا جتنا شکر ادا کروں کم), @fouzsiddiqui.bsky.social, for bringing me back as a speaker for Scientia’s Science Writing Internship. I will talk about Writing about Activism in Astronomy. I thank Saadeqa Khan for making this possible. meet.google.com/yti-zrpw-agm
I thank you from the bottom of my heart (أَشْكُرُكَ مِنْ أَعْمَاقِ قَلْبِي), Moe Abbas, for inviting me back as a guest speaker to the Astronomy Camp at New York University Abu Dhabi! On January 21, 2026, I will give a Zoom lecture on “Muslim Cultures and Extraterrestrial Life.” nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/20...
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I thank you from the bottom of my heart (أَشْكُرُكَ مِنْ أَعْمَاقِ قَلْبِي), Moe Abbas, for inviting me back as a guest speaker to the Astronomy Camp at New York University Abu Dhabi! On January 21, 2026, I will give a Zoom lecture on “Muslim Cultures and Extraterrestrial Life.” nyuad.nyu.edu/en/events/20...
I am extremely grateful to you (أَنَا مُمْتَــنٌّ لَكَ للغَايَةِ), @amr-rageh.bsky.social, for interviewing me via email for an investigative piece on the Gulf for @scidevnet.bsky.social. I am also very thankful to Bothina Osama for supporting Amr’s investigation. www.scidev.net/mena/scidev-...
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am extremely grateful to you (أَنَا مُمْتَــنٌّ لَكَ للغَايَةِ), @amr-rageh.bsky.social, for interviewing me via email for an investigative piece on the Gulf for @scidevnet.bsky.social. I am also very thankful to Bothina Osama for supporting Amr’s investigation. www.scidev.net/mena/scidev-...
Another issue of the Journal of Arabian Studies is out, another round of thanks is in order. I thank everyone who contributed book reviews to vol. 15, no. 1. They are @alsarihi.bsky.social, @brianjulrich.bsky.social, Christian Henderson, Luc Chantre, and others. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/1...
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Another issue of the Journal of Arabian Studies is out, another round of thanks is in order. I thank everyone who contributed book reviews to vol. 15, no. 1. They are @alsarihi.bsky.social, @brianjulrich.bsky.social, Christian Henderson, Luc Chantre, and others. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/1...
An astronomical amount of gratitude to Sherry Cady for publishing our “Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe Workshop Report” in Astrobiology 25, no. 11! I am infinitely thankful to @jordanbimm.bsky.social and Mary Voytek for leading our initiative. doi.org/10.1177/1531...
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
An astronomical amount of gratitude to Sherry Cady for publishing our “Communicating Discoveries in the Search for Life in the Universe Workshop Report” in Astrobiology 25, no. 11! I am infinitely thankful to @jordanbimm.bsky.social and Mary Voytek for leading our initiative. doi.org/10.1177/1531...
Let me give a big thank you to Gloria McMillan for hosting me on the Tucson Hard-Science SF Zoom (THSSFZ) on November 1, 2025. I was very honored to speak about “Science Fiction and Astrobiology in the Muslim World” as part of the Forry Ackerman Memorial series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PL9...
November 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Let me give a big thank you to Gloria McMillan for hosting me on the Tucson Hard-Science SF Zoom (THSSFZ) on November 1, 2025. I was very honored to speak about “Science Fiction and Astrobiology in the Muslim World” as part of the Forry Ackerman Memorial series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PL9...
I am asking Gloria McMillan to accept my deep gratitude for inviting me to speak about “Science Fiction and Astrobiology in the Muslim World” at the Hard-Science SF Zoom on November 1, 2025. I am very grateful to @emadscifi.bsky.social for introducing me to Glo. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I am asking Gloria McMillan to accept my deep gratitude for inviting me to speak about “Science Fiction and Astrobiology in the Muslim World” at the Hard-Science SF Zoom on November 1, 2025. I am very grateful to @emadscifi.bsky.social for introducing me to Glo. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mil gracias and a thousand thanks to Fernanda Castaño of Prêt-a-Portrait for taking school photographs of my daughter Maria! If the pictures show her as thriving, it is due to the teachers she has had at home, at Doha English Speaking School and previously at Kanga’s Pouch. info.pret-a-portrait.net
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Mil gracias and a thousand thanks to Fernanda Castaño of Prêt-a-Portrait for taking school photographs of my daughter Maria! If the pictures show her as thriving, it is due to the teachers she has had at home, at Doha English Speaking School and previously at Kanga’s Pouch. info.pret-a-portrait.net
Congratulations, Glückwunsch and مبروك to Amin Elfeshawi on successfully defending his dissertation on “The Individual between Jihadism and Islam Hadhari” at @univie.ac.at! Anja Zalta, Yavuz Köse, Rüdiger Lohlker and I had the privilege of asking him questions. utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/70191/
October 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Congratulations, Glückwunsch and مبروك to Amin Elfeshawi on successfully defending his dissertation on “The Individual between Jihadism and Islam Hadhari” at @univie.ac.at! Anja Zalta, Yavuz Köse, Rüdiger Lohlker and I had the privilege of asking him questions. utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/70191/
A big round of thank-yous to all who attended the October Colloquium of the Society for UAP Studies (SUAPS). I thoroughly enjoyed talking about “UFOs and UAP in the Muslim World” on Google Meet. A recording is now available on the SUAPS YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EHF...
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A big round of thank-yous to all who attended the October Colloquium of the Society for UAP Studies (SUAPS). I thoroughly enjoyed talking about “UFOs and UAP in the Muslim World” on Google Meet. A recording is now available on the SUAPS YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EHF...
My friend and collaborator Shoaib Ahmed Malik and I are enormously thankful to Ted Peters of the Graduate Theological Union for his continued interest in, and support of, our work. Ted wrote a post on “Islamic Theology Meets ETI” for his Substack blog. tedp.substack.com/p/islamic-th...
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My friend and collaborator Shoaib Ahmed Malik and I are enormously thankful to Ted Peters of the Graduate Theological Union for his continued interest in, and support of, our work. Ted wrote a post on “Islamic Theology Meets ETI” for his Substack blog. tedp.substack.com/p/islamic-th...
Thank you and يعطيك العافية (literally “may He give you health”) to everyone who contributed to making the celebration of World Space Week at Al Thuraya Planetarium a great success! Khalid Al-Sayed presented my fellow lecturers and me with trophies on October 7, 2025. qna.org.qa/en/News-Area...
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thank you and يعطيك العافية (literally “may He give you health”) to everyone who contributed to making the celebration of World Space Week at Al Thuraya Planetarium a great success! Khalid Al-Sayed presented my fellow lecturers and me with trophies on October 7, 2025. qna.org.qa/en/News-Area...
May God bless you and بارك الله فيك, Rashid Ali Al Kubaisi, for enabling me to give a presentation as part of World Space Week at the Al Thuraya Planetarium in Katara on October 6, 2025. If you want to zoom into my slides, please go to Prezi: prezi.com/view/oToqbmd...
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
May God bless you and بارك الله فيك, Rashid Ali Al Kubaisi, for enabling me to give a presentation as part of World Space Week at the Al Thuraya Planetarium in Katara on October 6, 2025. If you want to zoom into my slides, please go to Prezi: prezi.com/view/oToqbmd...
A round of thank yous to everyone who participated in the LinkedIn workshop led by Jacqulyn Williams and me in the Library at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar on September 30, 2025. Based on the success of this event, we plan to offer part 2 later this month. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
A round of thank yous to everyone who participated in the LinkedIn workshop led by Jacqulyn Williams and me in the Library at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar on September 30, 2025. Based on the success of this event, we plan to offer part 2 later this month. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
As long as I live, I will be indebted to you (من تا عمر دارم مدیون شما هستم), Parviz Tarikhi. Thank you for evaluating my @ibtauris.bsky.social book, Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 52, no. 4 (2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
As long as I live, I will be indebted to you (من تا عمر دارم مدیون شما هستم), Parviz Tarikhi. Thank you for evaluating my @ibtauris.bsky.social book, Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 52, no. 4 (2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Jörg Matthias Determann
The first review of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa is in: "This volume offers a rich and fascinating read to anyone interested in the possible futures of this central and quickly changing region. I highly recommend it." Thank you, @determann.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1080/1362...
doi.org/10.1080/1362...
Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa
Published in Mediterranean Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The first review of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa is in: "This volume offers a rich and fascinating read to anyone interested in the possible futures of this central and quickly changing region. I highly recommend it." Thank you, @determann.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1080/1362...
doi.org/10.1080/1362...
Danke noch einmal and thanks again to Rüdiger Lohlker for asking me to examine a doctoral dissertation by one of his students at @univie.ac.at! He entrusted me with grading Amin Elfeshawi’s thesis “The Individual between Jihadism and Islam Hadhari.” ssc-philkultur.univie.ac.at/studium/dokt...
September 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Danke noch einmal and thanks again to Rüdiger Lohlker for asking me to examine a doctoral dissertation by one of his students at @univie.ac.at! He entrusted me with grading Amin Elfeshawi’s thesis “The Individual between Jihadism and Islam Hadhari.” ssc-philkultur.univie.ac.at/studium/dokt...
Once again, I express thanks to the staff of the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for allowing me to give a book talk within the Meet VCU Authors series. @cstanciu2025.bsky.social kindly introduced me and my presentation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sih...
September 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Once again, I express thanks to the staff of the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for allowing me to give a book talk within the Meet VCU Authors series. @cstanciu2025.bsky.social kindly introduced me and my presentation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sih...
May God reward you (جزاك الله خيراً), Rashid Ali Al Kubaisi, for inviting me to collaborate with you on the organization of a children’s workshop at Al Thuraya Planetarium in Katara as part of World Space Week. althuraya.katara.net
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
May God reward you (جزاك الله خيراً), Rashid Ali Al Kubaisi, for inviting me to collaborate with you on the organization of a children’s workshop at Al Thuraya Planetarium in Katara as part of World Space Week. althuraya.katara.net
Attention students of Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar! Our Libraries offer you an exclusive LinkedIn Workshop. I thank Jacqulyn Williams very much for inviting me to join her in leading this session in our Library Conference Room (106i) on Tuesday, September 30. forms.gle/gxKzCwnJnCva...
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Attention students of Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar! Our Libraries offer you an exclusive LinkedIn Workshop. I thank Jacqulyn Williams very much for inviting me to join her in leading this session in our Library Conference Room (106i) on Tuesday, September 30. forms.gle/gxKzCwnJnCva...
I am euphoric in my gratitude to Michael Cifone for inviting me to give a colloquium for the Society for UAP Studies. On October 3, 2025, I will explore UFOs and UAP in the Muslim World. Adam Dodd kindly arranged my talk. www.societyforuapstudies.org/event-detail...
September 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I am euphoric in my gratitude to Michael Cifone for inviting me to give a colloquium for the Society for UAP Studies. On October 3, 2025, I will explore UFOs and UAP in the Muslim World. Adam Dodd kindly arranged my talk. www.societyforuapstudies.org/event-detail...