Egyptian Sci-Fi – Islam and Science Fiction

Crossing the Threshold of Egyptian Science Fiction: The Half-Humans, where Star Wars meets Sindbad’s Seven Journeys

On: March 19, 2018

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD The Egyptian science fiction novel The Great Space Saga: The Half-Humans, penned and published originally in 2001, is being dusted off for a contemporary and international audience with an English translation. The author, Dr. Hosam Abd Al-Hamid El-Zembely, is an avowed fan of Star Wars.Continue Reading

Satirical Sci-Fi from Egypt

By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

On: May 27, 2015

In: Arabic SF, Comics

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Sherif Adel’s Foot 3aleyna Bokra (Pass By Tomorrow) is an Egyptian comic set 1000 years in the future where technology has progressed but the problems that the Egyptian people face on a daily basis remain more or less the same. Here is an except from an interview of the author doneContinue Reading