The Dunes Strike Back! Luminary thinkers, writers and artists gathered in the first public forum of its kind to discuss the burgeoning impact of Science Fiction on the Muslim world today. Yesterday, over 200 people flocked to the British Library’s auditorium to join a nebulous Arab Sci-Fi movement set to boldly imagine new visions of […]
Sindbad Scifi is delighted to announce the date for a flagship event as part of MFest! Spicing Up Sci-Fi: The Dunes Strike Back 2 pm | Saturday 28 April 2018 British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB Dune, Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction novel, loaded with Islamic etymology, centres on a power struggle to […]
Spanish sci-fi and fantasy writer and editor, Cristina Jurado, will be giving a presentation (in Spanish) on Arabic science fiction during EuroCon 2016 The European Convention of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror taking place between November 4th to the 6th in Barcelona (Spain). Her intriguing talk title is “La ciencia ficción en los países árabes: retos, […]
1. Gerard Early 2. Arfa Ruhee 3. Zeba Asghar 4. Michelle Eskiwazi 5. Naima Benaye 6. Peter Abberle 7. Simon Fox 8. Frances Winfield 9. Debora Bradley 10. Subayda Said Mahamed
As part of our exciting Sindbad Sci-Fi event at the Science Museum on 15 November, all participants will have the chance to enter our prize-draw to win even more books on the night! Browse through this fabulous selection of Science Fiction which we’ve been busy harvesting from our generous publisher friends and authors especially for you to enjoy. Download the full description booklet here: […]
As we begin the countdown to our Sindbad Sci-Fi event on Saturday check out this exciting preview: Arab science fiction in the here and now By Ben East 9th November 2014 “A year ago, the question was really: ‘Does contemporary Arab science fiction even exist?’” says Khan. “Now it’s a case of following the trail. […]
ARAB SCIENCE FICTION: From Imagination to Innovation Saturday 15 November • 19:00 – 21:00 (Doors open 18:30) Science Museum | London | South Kensington BBC broadcaster, Samira Ahmed chairs a stellar panel of visionary thinkers who offer new perspectives on whether nurturing creativity through science fiction could be more crucial to our global progress than we […]
DATE: 3pm, Sunday 17th August 2014 Fantastical storytelling in Arabic doesn’t begin with and end with The Thousand and One Nights; in fact there is a long history of speculative fiction in Arabic, stretching all the way back to medieval intellectuals like al-Farabi and Ibn al-Nafis. This panel will explore the past, present and future […]
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