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 Aysha28/07/2023

Oppenheimer is a ‘Promethean’ feast for the eyes and ears

An amusing anecdote helps explain why this is such a must-see movie. While being treated […]
Emad Aysha16/07/2023

Mission Impossible 7 is a Digital Reality on the Rocks

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) is an intelligent movie. Of course, it […]
Emad Aysha29/06/2023

A mishmash conspiracy of paranoid ‘Arab’ mindset and other imports

A while ago, I read a novella – finished it all in one go – […]
Emad Aysha16/06/2023

What If… Science fiction left you in a fix you didn’t want to get out of?

I just finished Sandra Serage’s  What If (2023). I hadn’t seen it at the Cairo […]
Emad Aysha11/06/2023

Cosmic Price Tag – A Saudi SF novel that is anything but run of the mill

I was fortunate to read a strange but interesting and well-written Saudi science fiction novel, […]
Emad Aysha02/06/2023

Season of the Witch – Capitalism’s Slow March into Egypt’s Genre Entertainment

Not so long ago, I attended a workshop for ‘Critical Theory from the Global South: […]
Emad Aysha20/05/2023

From the Dark to the Dark: Asmaa El-Yamany’s time-travel novel brings a hopeless present to a predatory past

Previously I wrote a review of Asmaa el-Yamany’s novel Ashmadie. But the first novel of […]
The Liberum07/05/2023

The Sci-Fi Bandwagon - Dina Tohamy on translation, marketing and a taste of China's future fiction

A quick intro. I chanced upon Dr Dina at a translation event held by the […]
Emad Aysha24/04/2023

The Ramadan Mirror – The Fantasy and Sci-Fi of the Comedic Other

Attended a gripping literary and intellectual event the other day at the Insan bookstore, an […]
Emad Aysha18/04/2023

Blaze Ward – On the Social Science of Middle Eastern Space Opera

I know Blaze through my author friend Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi. Blaze helped him designing adverts […]
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