Join editor Sonia Sulaiman and contributors Layla Goushey, Emad Aysha, Ziyad Saadi, Nadia Affi, Rana Othman, Elise Stephens, Samah Fadil and others for a roundtable discussion about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Speculative Palestinian Fiction and the emerging genre of Palestinian speculative/science fiction.
Sonia Sulaiman is the editor of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. She writes stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Her work has been nominated for Pushcart Prize, Lammy, Palestine Book, and Best New Weird awards.www.soniasulaiman.com
Emad El-Din Aysha is an academic researcher, author, freelance journalist and translator with one sci-fi anthology to his name and one non-fiction work - Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2022). he was born in the United Kingdom to a Palestinian father and Egyptian mother and is a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (ESSF).
Elise Stephens (she/her) writes about themes of family, memory, and finding hope after a devastating loss. She is a first-place winner of Writers of the Future (2019), a finalist for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award (2021), and her fiction has appeared in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Escape Pod, and FIYAH, among others. www.EliseStephens.
Jumaana Abdu is the author Translations (Vintage), her debut novel. Her fiction and essays have been widely published and awarded in Australia, and during the day she is a medical doctor.
Samah Serour Fadil is an Afro-Palestinian writer, editor and translator who resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Nadia Afifi is the Palestinian-American author of The Sentient, The Emergent, The Transcendent and numerous short science fiction short stories, which have appeared in Clarkesworld and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She grew up in Bahrain but currently calls Denver, Colorado home, where she lives with her husband and two rescue dogs.
Layla Azmi Goushey is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her creative work has beenpublished in journals such as Yellow Medicine Review, Mizna, Sukoon, FIYAH, Strange Horizons and the Anthology of Arab American Creative Non-Fiction. She is the editor of Baladi Magazine. Follow her on X @lgoushey and/or @BaladiMagazine.