The transcript of the panel on Science Fiction and the Civic Imagination that I was a part of earlier this year is now online. You can read the whole transcript in Part 1 and Part 2. Here is a relevant excerpt. Mohammed: So, I guess part of reimagining the future isContinue Reading
Marianne Edwards Fire Boy is the first book of a duology by Sami Shah. Shah is a comedian, broadcaster, writer, speaker, and newshound. He has the breadth of perspective you’d expect from someone with so many strings to his bow. The story shows how a baby of extraordinary origins becomesContinue Reading
EMAD EL-DIN AYSHA is an academic, journalist and translator, currently stationed in Cairo, Egypt. While an Arab and Muslim he was born in the United Kingdom and is a native speaker of both English and Arabic. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate education in England (BA, MA, PhD) and hasContinue Reading
Note: The following interview of the Egyptian author Mr Ahmed Al Mahdi was conducted by Emad El-Din Aysha for Islam and Sci-Fi-Fi Mr Ahmed Al Mahdi is a 26-year-old Egyptian fantasy and sci-fi writer who wrote his first novel when he was twelve, and already has several acclaimed novels underContinue Reading
Ayed Kawthar is a Tunisian academic whose area of research is Arabic Science Fiction. Her PhD dissertation was also in Arabic Science Fiction. Since her primary languages are Arabic and French so we interviewed Dr. Kawthar in French. This also marks the first time that we are posting an interviewContinue Reading
Yaqteenya is an alternative history novel by Yasir Bahjatt, a Saudi citizen who has been instrumental in trying to get the genre of Science Fiction off the ground in Saudi Arabia. The novel has both Science Fiction and Fantasy elements. It imagines a group of Spanish Muslims who venture intoContinue Reading
Sadeq Hedayat is considered to be one of the foresmost short story writers of the Farsi language of the modern era. One of his short stories is titled Seen Ghaff Laam Laam (س گ ل ل) or S.G.L.L which has some science fiction undertones and was published in 1933. TheContinue Reading
Image: Still from the upcoming Ajwan TV series from UAE Here is another Masters thesis that might be of interest to our readers at Islam and Sci-Fi. Zainab Coovadia, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto has a masters thesis on social justice and politics inContinue Reading
Great news for lovers of Urdu Literature, Khurshid Iqbal, a critic and researcher from India, has a masters thesis on Science Fiction in Urdu Literature. The text itself is in the Urdu language but I am hoping that an English translation would be available in the near future. It startsContinue Reading
There is a wonderful effort started in Pakistan by Usman T. Malik and Tehseen Bajwa from Pakistan to recognize the pursuit of Science Fiction and imaginative fiction in Pakistan. Here is the release from the creators of the Salam Awards, please share widely. Named after Pakistan’s only Nobel Prize winner–theContinue Reading