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Merve Tabur
@mervet.bsky.social
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Turkish/Arabic/Anglophone SF ☆ climate change ☆ urban futures ☆ petro-cultures ☆ #envhum
Lecturer in Comparative Literature @ Utrecht University
Researcher @ CoFutures
Editor-in-chief @ Fafnir

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For a system rooted in freedom, justice & equality—free from exploitation and nepotism. Where we are rewarded fairly for our labor, without facing precarity or threats to our well-being. For solidarity and fulfilment instead of competition and profit. Happy Labor and Solidarity Day!
May 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🛸𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🛸

My review of Jörg Matthias Determann's @determann.bsky.social Islam, Science Fiction, and Extraterrestrial Life @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is now out in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Cambridge University Press)!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S002...
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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New publication!

press.syr.edu/supressbooks...

There will be a book launch at the Orient-Institut in Istanbul on May 8:

oiist.org/en/event/the...
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Sevgili Jülide Kayaş ve İsmail Yamanol'un hazırlayıp sunduğu Omelas bilimkurgu podcast'ine Ayşegül Yalvaç ile birlikte konuk olduk. Ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişkiyi konuştuk. Bugün yayında!🌳
February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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You can send us your article any time, but if you'd like it to be considered for our next issue (1/2025), the deadline is December 31!
#sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy
Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 1/2025. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research. The submissions must be original works written in English, Finnish, or a Scandinavian language. Manuscripts for research articles should be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length. The journal uses the most recent edition of the MLA Style Manual (MLA 8). The manuscripts for research articles will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review. Please note that as Fafnir is designed to be of interest to readers with varying backgrounds, essays and other texts should be as accessibly written as possible. Also, if English is not your first language, please have your article proofread by an English-language editor. Please ensure your submission conforms to our journal’s submission guidelines, which are available at: http://journal.finfar.org/for-authors/submission-guidelines/ In addition to research articles, Fafnir welcomes text proposals for essays, interviews, overviews, conference reports, as well as book and thesis reviews on any subject suitable for the journal. Please send your electronic submission (saved as DOC/DOCX or RTF) to the following address: submissions@finfar.org. More information about the journal is available at our webpage: journal.finfar.org. Offers to review recent academic books can be sent to reviews@finfar.org. Submission deadline: 31 December 2024.
December 10, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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#readpalestineweek starts today! Here are some of my recommendations if you would like to explore Palestinian speculative fiction. I've just received my long-awaited copy of Thyme Travellers, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social and can't wait to dive into it this week! What will you be reading?
Thyme Travellers (Edited by Sonia Sulaiman), The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr (Translated by Marcia Lynx Qualey), Lifta volumes: Future Palestine, Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba (Edited by Basma Ghaliyini), Reworlding Ramallah: Short science fiction stories from Palestine (Edited by Callum Copley)
November 29, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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I found this Proust questionnaire at Shakespeare & Co. It may help with the contemplation. :)
November 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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Stumbled upon this beautiful anthology yesterday and immediately got it. It's edited by @jordanelgrably.bsky.social and published by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in 2024. It contains 25 stories selected from the Markaz Review.
An image of the book, Stories from the center of the world: New Middle East fiction, edited by Jordan Elgrably. The image depicts an arched door, patterned floor tiles, and orange walls from the interior of the Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail, in Meknes, Morocco. Back cover of the book. The blurb reads: "Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the greater Middle East (or SWANA), a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here are either native to the region or part of a global diaspora, with an origins in a wide range of cultures and countries, including Palestine, Syria, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, and others. What emerges from their stories is a collective worldview, a multi-voiced celebration of the vanguard creativity and enduring humanity of the global Arab/Muslim world. Featuring: Salar Abdoh, Leila Aboulela, Farah Ahamed, Omar El Akkad, Sarah AlKahly-Mills, Nektaria Anastasiadou, Amany Kamal Eldin, Jordan Elgrably, Omar Foda, May Haddad, Danial Haghighi, Malu Halasa, MK Harb, Alireza Iranmehr, Karim Kattan, Hanif Kureishi, Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi, Diary Marif, Tariq Mehmood, Sahar Mustafah, Mohammed Al-Naas, Ahmed Naji, Mai Al-Nakib, Abdellah Taia, and Natasha Tynes.
November 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Looking forward to this!
November 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM