Category: Unconventional

In a nutshell, unconventional means not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed. If there is anything else to it, do let us know.

Emad Aysha20/05/2024

Kingdom of the Apes: Originality, Innocence or Imitation?

I forced myself, under dire circumstances, to go and watch Kingdom of the Planet of […]
STRETCHING THE TRUTH: A classic scene from Terry Gilliam's Kafkaesque dystopian sci-fi masterpiece 'Brazil'.
Emad Aysha06/05/2024

Kafka to the Rescue: from Brazil to the Middle East

Through a series of fortuitous coincidences, I got a chance to watch a BBC adaptation […]
TAKING THE TUBE: Shree Nation leaving a trail of reviews and mysteries from Bollywood to Hollywood.
Emad Aysha26/04/2024

Shree Nation - Jack of All Trades and Master of More than One

Any of you who read the interview with Christina Marie Alongi know I’m a YouTube […]
Emad Aysha13/04/2024

Conferring on the possibilities, Dr Heba Farouk talks about children’s SF and the Sufi imagination

I dropped in unannounced at a conference at the Egyptian Writers’ Union on children’s literature […]
BISECTED IN THE MIRROR: Dr. Faycel (with novel) peering into the West's heart of darkness, or the West peering into our own? [Image provided by author]
Emad Aysha31/03/2024

Karl Marx in Algeria: The man or the mission?

During the Cairo International Book Fair, I made it a point to buy Dr. Faycel […]
Emad Aysha25/03/2024

Abeer Abdel Galil Ibrahim – An interview from between the warring stars!

Abeer Abdel Galil has two novels in a series—‘The Return (العودة) and ‘Janus’ (الجانوس)—and a […]
Emad Aysha07/03/2024

Ahmed Farahat - A Beginner's Guide to Egyptian Cultural Life, Foreign Viruses and SF Ecosystems

I was at Dar Mobtada Bookstore in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on an afternoon in […]
Emad Aysha01/03/2024

Dune part two: Last-minute stitch-up or spot-on surgical strike?

I may have to eat my words over Denis Villeneuve after watching Dune Part Two […]
Emad Aysha17/02/2024

Interviewing Abdel Aal Bikheet – On Egypt’s technological future, mythical past, and alienated present!

If you remember, I once reviewed (‘The Hack’ or ‘Penetration’) by Abdel Aal Bikheet. I […]
Emad Aysha06/02/2024

Family disvalued – Cronenberg’s tragicomedy of the path to nowhere

Following on from my body horror piece on David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022), […]
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