Crafting the Future: Mansoura Ez-Eldin on Three Ways of Writing Speculative Fiction скачать в хорошем качестве

Crafting the Future: Mansoura Ez-Eldin on Three Ways of Writing Speculative Fiction

In this Crafting the Future video lecture, novelist and nonfiction writer Mansoura Ez-Eldin discusses how to conceive three kinds of speculative fiction stories, as well as how to make the setting work work for your story. Note that English subtitles are available. MANSOURA EZ-ELDIN, nominated by Beirut39 among the 39 Best Arab-language Writers Under 40, is an award-winning and widely translated author of 10 books. -خطوات في شنغهاي [Walks in Shanghai: on the Meaning of Distance Between Egypt and China] won the 2021 Ibn Battuta Prize for travel literature; in 2014, the Sharjah International Book Fair nominated her جبل الزمرد [Emerald Mountain] as Best Arabic Novel. Her writing has appeared, among other places, in The New York Times, A Public Space, Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Granta. She is the managing editor of the cultural weekly Akhbar Al-Adab and, since 2003, its book review editor. A grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State funds her participation.