Country: Egypt

Emad Aysha21/07/2024

Big city blues… What children’s sci-fi can tell us about Arab worldviews

It might surprise you, but stocking Arab sci-fi wherever and whenever I can find it […]
Emad Aysha08/07/2024

Exotheological Games – Ammar al-Masry’s guidebook to interstellar conflict

Ammar’s Atlantis trilogy was reviewed in this segment before, so it seems natural to talk […]
Emad Aysha27/05/2024

The non-novel novel – Seshat’s Ancient Rescue Manual

A while ago. I was browsing through a book sale and found what was professed […]
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 […]
Arthur Blok20/04/2024

Italian Poet Laura Grimaldi: “Poetry is my breath”

Italian poet Laura Grimaldi had a rich and dynamic career. She was born in Liège, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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