{"id":186,"date":"2021-02-09T18:39:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:39:08","slug":"middle-eastern-futurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/middle-eastern-futurism\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Eastern Futurism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction has produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/publish.lib.umd.edu\/?journal=scifi&amp;page=index\">fascinating special edition volume <\/a>focused on what they term Middle Eastern SF (though the inclusion of an article on Iranian &#8216;theory fiction&#8217; writer Reza Negarestani suggests a somewhat expansive understanding of Middle East).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/publish.lib.umd.edu\/public\/journals\/5\/cover_issue_37_en_US.jpg?resize=216%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"280\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not especially focused on religious futurism, despite the inclusion of a review of Jorg Determann&#8217;s book (my own review of which is pending publication in the next edition of <em>Foundation.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, there is much of interest here for those curious to know more about Arab futurism, Gulf futurism and the interactions between Israeli and Palestinian SF especially. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction has produced a fascinating special edition volume focused on what they term Middle Eastern SF (though the inclusion of an article on Iranian &#8216;theory fiction&#8217; writer Reza Negarestani suggests a somewhat expansive understanding of Middle East). It&#8217;s not especially focused on religious futurism, despite the inclusion of a review &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/middle-eastern-futurism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Middle Eastern Futurism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,28,3],"tags":[94,38,92,93,95],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-literary-criticism","category-religious-futurism","tag-iranian-sf","tag-islamofuturism","tag-israeli-sf","tag-palestinian-sf","tag-reza-negarestani"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-30","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}