Country: Oman

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 […]
Arthur Blok26/08/2023

A visit to Mount Lebanon’s hidden gem

I had the honour and pleasure to visit one of Mount Lebanon’s hidden gems in […]
Glen Kalem-Habib25/08/2023

A Short Treatise on the Art of Music: Translating Gibran as a Shared Experience

Ameen Goryeb (Amīn al-Ġurayyib, 1880-1971), editor and owner of Al-Mohajer (‘The Emigrant’), a daily Arabic […]
Arthur Blok07/08/2023

Greek part of Cyprus performing well despite 49 years of Turkish occupation

Cyprus is a sad illustration of the international community's incompetence in solving demographic disputes. The […]
Nikola Mikovic10/07/2023

Prigozhin's failed mutiny: Putin may have won, but at what cost?

Over the years, the Kremlin has used the Wagner mercenaries to do the dirty work […]
Marita Kassis05/07/2023

The 1001 Richness of the Middle East’s Hidden Treasures

Some look at the Middle East and see a series of political issues and wars, […]
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 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 […]
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