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Emad Aysha01/12/2023

Napoleon and Waterloo, beating the cinematic odds

On November 25, I decided to spoil myself by watching the new movie Napoleon by […]
Emad Aysha25/11/2023

Philip K. Dick and the value, and perils, of doubt

A while ago, I attended a fascinating lecture about the science of spreading doubt and […]
Emad Aysha24/10/2023

The art of eating sci-fi pumpkins in Chengdu, China

I just visited China to participate in the Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention and the […]
Emad Aysha09/10/2023

Eman Nabil reminds us that there's always time for a change... on the Arab sci-fi scene

Eman Nabil’s ‘The Result of a Change’ (2018) is a complicated sci-fi novel. It is […]
Emad Aysha13/09/2023

Space Enough to Feel – Hacking away at Egyptian dreams of the Metaversal revolution

I just read a rather interesting novella by Abd Al-Aal Bikhyt, Ikhtiraq (‘The Hack’ or […]
Emad Aysha01/09/2023

Mahmoud Fikry’s Metaverse proves the dark times are just around the virtual corner!

Here’s a new novel to deal with, one I came across at the Cairo International […]
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 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: […]
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 […]
Marita Kassis26/04/2023

Netflix blackwashed Queen Cleopatra vs Egyptian pride

A Netflix docudrama series portraying Queen Cleopatra VII as a black African resulted in a […]
Arthur Blok14/04/2023

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 Liberum10/04/2023

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 Aysha10/02/2023

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 Aysha24/01/2023

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 […]
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