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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We might reach 90% funded today. I’m truly so grateful for each and every one of you who has shared and supported this book of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

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Update 4: 89% there! Time to talk stretch goals… · Thyme Travellers 2

Your support means a lot to me. The story for this project, and the small community of Palestinian writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror… truly, this series would be much harder to put toget...

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My research was featured by Universiteiten van Nederland & Institutions for Open Societies at Utrecht University. Here I discuss futurisms, SWANA SF, the work of @ahmednaji.bsky.social & my co-edited volume, The Speculative Route. Available in English below. www.linkedin.com/pulse/scienc...

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Science Fiction, maar dan heel anders

Hoe zit het met de toekomst? Mijn collega Merve Tabur onderzoekt science fiction uit Zuidwest-Azië en Noord-Afrika. Daarin spelen niet de eeuwige techbro's met doemscenario's of 'oplossingen voor de w...

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Less than 10 days to go! We look forward to opening up this space, no matter how small, to think with care and hope together, particularly at a time fractured by ever-expanding forms of carelessness and violence. 🕊️

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📣 Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2026. 📣 Deadline: 30.06.2026 Submissions should be made through the online portal: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🎉✨NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨ Fafnir's latest issue features a prefatory by Israel A. C. Noletto on SF and Eutopian Imagination, two essays on Norwegian SF & climate modeling as a worldbuilding tool, a lectio praecursoria and seven book reviews! 🐉 Read the full issue for free here: fafnir.journal.fi

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Bu akşam 4. Berkol Bilimkurgu Günleri kapsamında @ezgihamzacebi.bsky.social ile, Bülay Doğan moderatörlüğünde, spekülatif kurmacada güncel tartışmalar üzerine sohbet edeceğiz. İlgilenenleri bekliyoruz! Programın tamamına ve katılım formlarına buradan erişebilirsiniz: linktr.ee/bilimkurguku...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In “The Cultural Work of Fantasy in the Anthropocene" Marek Oziewicz celebrates the potential of fantasy to provide new models & patterns of thinking to counter the ecocidal status quo and underlines the genre's importance in educating citizens. Read for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨ ☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz. Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi Happy reading!

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Many thanks to the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) for supporting our symposium with a grant and for including it in their 2025-2026 Academic Programme!

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've created a starter pack for those who are interested in following the accounts of Arab authors and scholars working on Arabic literature. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list. go.bsky.app/To2zEEL

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

@mugeozoglu.bsky.social and I've been envisioning this network for a long time & we're thrilled to announce its launch! We are now inviting abstract submissions for our inaugural symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in SWANA (10 April 2026). Visit our website to check the CfP.

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🛸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...

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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!

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

On May 18th, join Maya Salameh for her 3rd workshop, "On the Memory of Water" ❤️ We'll explore the profound connections between water, memory, and resistance from the perspectives of poets Ariana Benson, Banah el Ghadbanah, Camonghne Felix, and Nizar Qabbani. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/on-...

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Workshops for Gaza
On the Memory of Water
May 18
10-12pm PST/1-3pm EST
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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ayşegül Yalvaç ile konuk olduğumuz ve iklim kurgu, ekoloji ve bilimkurgu arasındaki ilişki gibi konular üzerine konuştuğumuz Omelas programının kaydına şuradan erişebilirsiniz: apacikradyo.com.tr/podcast/248807 Spotify kullananlar için: open.spotify.com/episode/3rcA...

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İklim-Kurgu

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

📣 CfP: Fafnir invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025! Research into any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome. Deadline: 30 June 2025 Submissions should be made through the online portal: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis... #sciencefiction #SFF

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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!🌳

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/1... Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!

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Vol. 11 No. 1–2/2024 (2024)

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣 If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.

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AVAILABLE BOOKS FOR REVIEW FAFNIR: NORDIC JOURNAL OF SF&F RESEARCH *NOTE: Click here for our reviewer guidelines as well as our style sheet. If you’d like to review a book, just e-mail me (Jari Käkel...

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The question of imagination is all the more relevant in the face of the organized attack and funding-cuts our humanities departments are facing. We're being told imagination matters as long as it yields profit. But imagining the future is a right and a responsibility. Imagination must be defended!

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Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hi everyone! Here is a little introduction to our journal. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published online twice a year. We publish texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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Olivia Snaije @oliviasnaije.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The publishing industry in Lebanon is one of the most sophisticated in the Middle East. Although it has been incredibly difficult for #publishers in the past 5 years, it was far worse over the past two months during incessant bombing by Israel: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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War Leaves Scars on Lebanese Publishing

The brief war of bombardment between Israel and Hezbollah this year destroyed millions of books in Lebanon, disrupting a Lebanese production sector that is critical to the book publishing business in ...

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Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Some good news: My article "An Archive of Silences: Postcolonial Readability of the Ottoman Turkish Novel" has just been published in Journal of World Literature! brill.com/view/journal...

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Please share! Five fully funded PhD positions now available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo! Application deadline: February 24.

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Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145) | University of Oslo

Job title: Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Check out my latest project, coming in 2026: The Apocryphal, an anthology of Palestinian dark fantasy and horror fiction from Roseway. www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

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The Aprocryphal: Palestinian Dark Fiction

An anthology of original Palestinian dark fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. | Check out 'The Aprocryphal: Palestinian Dark Fiction' on Indiegogo.

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Read Palestine Week 2024 is over, but find a list of books that are still free at the P4P website, then visit their "take action now" page for suggestions on what more you can do. publishersforpalestine.org/take-action-...

Find a list of books about Palestine that are still free at publishersforpalestine.org

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Ali Kulez @alikulez.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Proofs are in! It’s a pleasure to publish an article on Aslı Erdoğan, an award-winning, exiled Turkish author still little known in the US. I can’t think of a better home for this essay than Comparative Literature Studies. #newpub #globalSouth

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2024 IPA Prix Voltaire Goes to Gaza-based Publisher Samir Mansour arablit.org/2024/12/04/2...

In his acceptance address, delivered by video from Gaza, Mansour said, in part:

I would like to thank everyone who supported the IPA Prix Voltaire and the International Publishers Association. In 2021 my bookshop was completely destroyed. It was rebuilt in 2022. During the current war, the bookshop was also destroyed again and the second branch of the library bookshop was destroyed. However, I am still continuing my work which I grew up with and was raised in since my childhood. I am still publishing despite being on the Gaza strip. God willing us, we will continue to publish and print, no matter how difficult the circumstances we are living today. We will continue.

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Sarah R. bin Tyeer @sarahrbintyeer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Join us on Friday at 11am!

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm continuing to update this stater pack which has now over 70 names listed. Please share and let me know if you would like to be on the list/have any suggestions. 📚

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Literary theory and criticism people, this may be of interest to you!

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Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#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)

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

FIRE-READY by Jane Rogers is OUT NOW!🔥 From bushfires & eco-protests to space travel & VR addiction, Jane Rogers' new Cli-Fi collection shines a light on our planet's health & the prospects for its greediest tenants. AVAILABLE NOW👇 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/fire-r...

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Madeehah 🍉 ORPHAN PLANET OUT NOW! @madeehahwrites.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

ORPHAN PLANET is a story of human connection & the lengths we'll go to preserve that. Pre-order if you want to read a story with: 🪐 a planet with dramatically changing seasons 🤖 an AI companion 🕵‍♀️ a bit of mystery 🗳 messy politics 🤯 messier emotions Release date in Feb!

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Eline D. Tabak @elinetabak.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

A little #ecocriticism / #envlit (/ #envhum) starter pack - all names, suggestions, feeds welcome! 📚🌿🪲 go.bsky.app/E9pwdD

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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Liam Knight and I have a podcast! It's called "Utopian and Dystopian Fictions" and features interviews with some fantastic scholars. In the first episode we interview Raffaella Baccolini! More to follow. open.spotify.com/show/2HWH9BA...

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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions

Podcast · Utopian and Dystopian Fictions · Utopian and Dystopian Fictions is a podcast for scholars, thinkers, and anyone with an interest in utopian and dystopian theory, literature, film, and televi...

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