I had the good fortune to meet the President of Egyptian Society for Science Fiction Dr. Hosam El-Zembely and its member Emad Aysha in Nasr City (a suburb of Cairo) at their headquarters last week. The Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (جمعية المصرية لأدب الخيال العلمي) is a Science FictionContinue Reading
Writing about HWJN has been on my list of to-do things for a while but it is only now that I am able to post anything about it. HWJN is the brainchild of Ibraheem Abbas and Yasser Bahjatt who published the novel via their own publishing company Yatakhalayoon in 2013.Continue Reading
The folks over at the Middle East Institute interviewed me regarding Arab Science Fiction, the interview is now up on their website. Interview at the Middle East Institute – Singapore National University
For the readers who are in Alabama here is treat, Ian Campbell, about whom we posted just a few days ago will be giving a lecture on Hayy ibn Yaqzan tomorrow at the Jacksonville State University, here is more info from the university’s website: Dr. Campbell to Present “‘Hayy ibnContinue Reading
(Image Source: Al-Jazeera) Al-Jazeera has just ran an article on the rise of Horror, Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction in the Arabic language in recent years. But the Katara prize is untested, and this year’s Sheikh Zayed award hardly launched a tweet. Meanwhile, the IPAF sparked an avalanche of social-media zaghrutasand attendantContinue Reading