Category: Emad's SF

Everybody needs a voice, and Arab and Muslim science fiction is no exception. This is Emad's gift to his colleagues across the region and beyond. A platform for the unheard, reviewing, and interviewing the avant-garde to mend cultural bridges from the Global South to the Global North.

Emad Aysha06/05/2025

Pygmalion’s eyeball – Hitchcock and the male gaze, revisited

Disclaimer: It seems I’m going to have to eat some of my words as regards […]
Emad Aysha01/05/2025

Deep state laundry – Brainwashed by the British novel

Watching all the YouTube videos about the revelations about the John F. Kennedy and Robert […]
Emad Aysha26/04/2025

The Great Reorientation – Ammar al-Masry’s new pivot strategy

I made a concerted decision not to buy too much SF during the Cairo International […]
Emad Aysha12/04/2025

Forbidden Psyches – World-building from a non-rational standpoint

As hard as it is to believe, I’ve only recently watched that Hitchcock classic, Psycho […]
Emad Aysha06/04/2025

Too Clear to Shoot – The numbers game of the ages

Who remembers the Gene Hackman, Will Smith action classic Enemy of the State (1998)? I […]
Emad Aysha29/03/2025

World-building blunders: SF between high and low tech

I know I keep on and on about Dune, but what can I do? I […]
Emad Aysha21/03/2025

Torn Asunder: AI between Techno-Fascism and Monotheistic Evolution

I attended an interesting lecture the other day about AI, a very heavy-duty philosophical discussion […]
Emad Aysha16/03/2025

Image by Seduction – Casting a sci-fi spell in the Hollywood of today

You can’t talk about cinema without talking about show-do-not-tell. It’s a truism, but it can […]
Emad Aysha06/03/2025

Malcolm in the Midst – Old and New Republics of the Absurd

There is something about Malcolm McDowell movies. Especially when you watch several of them (almost) […]
Emad Aysha28/02/2025

Lucasville – The lost art of world-building Americana

With some reservations, I watched one of George Lucas’s non-sci-fi epics, American Graffiti (1973), a […]
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