TalksTalks
Venue
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Date
Sat 22 Aug 2026
Time
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Leila Elder & Mahmud El Sayed: Future Histories image
Synopsis:

Where will the world be in 25 years? How about two centuries from now? Today, two writers with audacious imaginations are here to share their predictions. A pioneer of sci-fi genre Arabfuturism, Mahmud El Sayed foresees political unrest aboard a spaceship in The Republic of Memory. He joins Leila Elder, editor of the short story anthology, Iran +100, which imagines the country in the year 2053 – for a thought-provoking discussion about imagined futures. Chaired by Noor Hemani.