Country: Egypt

Emad Aysha

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: […]
The Liberum

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 […]
Marita Kassis

Netflix blackwashed Queen Cleopatra vs Egyptian pride

A Netflix docudrama series portraying Queen Cleopatra VII as a black African resulted in a […]
Arthur Blok

Best-selling Lebanese author Karim El Koussa about his new TV Show: “People need to know the great history of the Phoenicians.”

Best-selling Lebanese author Karim El Koussa just rounded up the filming of ‘Phoenix Oracle’.  A […]
The Liberum

An Egyptian SF city – Meet the mighty ‘morphine’ power dangers

I just finished what I presume is an SF novel, Morphius City (2018), by Muhammad […]
Emad Aysha

Full Circle – Gene-splicing in the Egyptian genre imagination

A funny story about a funny story: I was at the 54th Cairo International Book […]
Emad Aysha

An Eventful Occasion: China and the Arabs, from the Baghdad library to Sci-Fi in translation

I attended an event in late December at the Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo about […]
Emad Aysha

Cybermania – A journey east, where machine is the becoming of man

Human beings are members of a whole In the creation of one essence and soul […]
Emad Aysha

A dialogue on 21st-century Arabic and Iranian science fiction

“(O Prophet), good and evil are not equal. Repel (evil) with that which is good, […]
Emad Aysha

Past participle – The Burden of the future is shared unequally

The artist is constantly engaged in writing a detailed history of the end because he […]
Emad Aysha

Memory lane – Dystopia is what the sober ought to make of it

And so it is that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with […]
Emad Aysha

Yemeni SF, a Galaxy in the Waiting - An interview with Mohammed Al-Shaibani

Dear Mr Mohammed Abd Al-Malik Al-Shaibani, First, thank you for your exciting novel, Sakin Al-Majara […]
The Liberum

Creating Building Blocks for Cooperative Security in the Middle East

Fading hopes for a revival of the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program […]
Emad Aysha

Science fiction commentaries: ‘The Economists’, a much needed anthology from Egypt and Arab authors

The Economists is the latest publication of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction in a […]
The Liberum

Private sector in Egypt believed to be discriminating against girls in hijabs

Women wearing hijabs (Muslim headscarves) are being discriminated against by businesses in Egypt, a BBC […]
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