Mahmud will be discussing his debut novel, The Republic of Memory.
Tickets £8
Mahmud El Sayed’s debut science fiction novel, published in May this year, is inspired by the events of the Arab Spring and is an analysis of empire and a portrayal of revolutionary change.
The British-Egyptian writer is a former Middle Eastern politics journalist, now writing science fiction and fantasy. He lives in East London where he spends his time pondering linguistic oddities.
Mahmud El Sayed won the prestigious 2023 Future Worlds prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour, and his work focuses on Arabic and Islamic-inspired themes in a genre he calls Arabfuturism.
Mahmud will be joined in discussion with Dr Will Slocombe, a Reader in the Department of English, co-director of the Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures, and director of the Science Fiction Studies MA pathway.