Tag: Middle East

Close Encounters of the Arab Kind

Read at BBC.com.

Vintage book cover of  Arabic sci-fi novel, "Trip to the Heavens," Cairo, 1953

Vintage book cover of Arabic sci-fi novel, “Trip to the Heavens,” Cairo, 1953

Dubai Is Buying Jetpacks For Its Firefighters

LINK: Sky-high prices are no obstacle to sky-high rescue

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Science Fiction & Fantasy In the Middle East

Beyond One Thousand and One Nights

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Why Science Fiction Matters To Life In The Postcolony

Read at Mediadiversified.org.

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#POCtober: Boujloud Is Morocco’s Unique Halloween

LINK: Deeply rooted in Berber tradition, the annual Boujloud Festival

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#POCtober: Salman Rushdie & the Djinn

An Essay From Mysterious Universe

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The rise of the comic book in the Middle East

LINK: MORE FROM YAHOO! NEWSs

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Iranian Cartoonist Atena Farghadani Gets 12 year sentence for shaking man’s hand

Amnesty International calling for Iran to release her immediately

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The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina

And How He Shaped the Course of Medicine

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The Mysterious New Middle East Hacker Army

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