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 […]