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Emad Aysha06/03/2025

Malcolm in the Midst – Old and New Republics of the Absurd

There is something about Malcolm McDowell movies. Especially when you watch several of them (almost) […]
Emad Aysha25/02/2025

A Clockwork Orange: Fiction too far or Timeless classic?

I’d recently watched an episode of Lost in Adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clock Orange […]
Emad Aysha25/10/2024

Trumpet Call – Potential futures that reveal actual pasts

Sometimes, you watch one of those (rather) bad but still very interesting SF movies. White […]
Emad Aysha23/09/2024

Patriot on the loose… Better Chris than Jack Ryan!

I was rummaging around the secondhand book market here in Cairo and came up with […]
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 […]
Ken van Ierlant08/02/2024

Proportionality in this Gaza war is neither possible nor desirable

Proportionality in the Israel-Gaza war is impossible and undesirable. This is a paradoxical statement that […]
The Liberum24/01/2024

Was Kahlil Gibran a Bolshevik? The Classified FBI (BOI) Files Explained

Edgar B. Speer, special agent for the Buro of Investigation (BOI) in Pittsburgh in August […]
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 […]
The Liberum12/11/2023

No apology is necessary, but accountability will be inevitable

Britain’s prime minister recently rejected slavery reparation calls, so contrition for giving away Palestine on […]
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 […]
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