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 […]
Celebrating the good and the great of Arab Sci-Fi The past few days have been bittersweet for the evolving realms of Arab science fiction. The recent elation of Ahmed Saadwai being shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize for his novel Frankenstein in Bagdad was preceded by heart-breaking news that Ahmed Khaled Towfik is no […]
Sindbad Sci-Fi is excited to partner with this year’s Bradford Literature Festival – located in one of the most most vibrant cities in the UK. Islamicate Science Fiction Saturday, 21st May 2016 | 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm | University of Bradford Our panel will talk about their own work and Arabic […]
SCIENCE FICTION IN THE ARAB WORLD PANEL DISCUSSION SAT 25 JULY 2015, 12.30PM | THE BRITISH LIBRARY From utopian dreams to dystopian nightmares, could a new wave of Arabic science fiction spur us to reimagine alternative futures in the Middle East and beyond? Sindbad Sci-Fi’s producer Yasmin Khan joins forces with Shubbak to beam up a […]
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 […]