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Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

Emad El-Din Aysha is an academic researcher, sci-fi author and freelance translator and journalist currently residing in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in the UK in 1974 to a Palestinian father and Egyptian mother, completed his PhD in International Studies in 2001 at the University of Sheffield and has taught at universities as diverse as the American University in Cairo and Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development. He has a regular SFF review column in The Liberum online newspaper and formerly wrote for Egypt Oil & Gas and The Egyptian Gazette. He has two books to his name, the nonfiction 'Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays'  (McFarland, 2022), and an anthology in Arabic that has recently been republished - 'The Digital Hydra' (2026). He also had the honour of publishing a story with the first ever anthology of Palestinian SF (Palestine+100) and the award winning Thyme Travellers, and is a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction regularly represents Arab literature at forums like Balticon and WorldCon.

Through a Comedic Glass, Darkly – On Humour, Satire and Alienation in Egyptian (or Arab) Speculative Fiction

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.” — John le Carré, A Murder …

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Interview – Iranian Speculative Fiction: Authors, Publishers, Comic Book Creators, and the Parallel World of Arabic Science Fiction.

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

Organized by Emad El-Din Aysha. Emad comments: This is a roundtable discussion among several key players in the world of Iranian science fiction, with some participation from the parallel world …

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Roundtable: Science Fiction Writer Emad El-Din Aysha in Conversation with Latin American Science Fiction Writers

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
During a gravity assist in 1992, the Galileo spacecraft took images of Earth and the Moon. Separate images were combined to generate this composite which features a view of the Pacific Ocean and Central and South America. NASA/JPL/USGS

Recently, Emad El-Din Aysha, a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (ESSF) and the Egyptian Writers’ Union, invited seven well-known Latin American science fiction writers to a round …

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A Whole in Time – Arabic Travels between Science, Magic and Romance

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
The Hour of Time book cover. A pale green circle with swirls inside on a darker greeen background

There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism; in fact, you might say …

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HERE TO STAY – Reporting the Frontline of Arab Women’s Science Fiction

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
Covers of Arabic language books mentioned in article

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender …

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Mars in the Muslim Mind: Salvation on the Born-Again Red Planet in Hosam Elzembely’s Final Voyage

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD
Image of mars at the top with a space craft flying by. the title has Dr. Hosam Elzembely as author with the title Final Voyage

“President Bush announced that we were landing on Mars today … which means he’s given up on Earth.” – Jon Stewart, The Daily Show This is a study of The …

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WORLDS TO CONSUME – A Dialogue on the Value and Place of Food in Building Sci-Fi Worlds

Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “All nature faithfully” – But by what feint Can Nature be subdued to (the artist’s) constraint? Her smallest fragment is still infinite! And so he …

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