Mahmud El Sayed

About The Author

Mahmud El Sayed is a British Egyptian science fiction and fantasy writer and translator. A former journalist, he won the 2023 Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Color for his work focusing on Arabic and Islamic-inspired themes in a genre he is calling Arabfuturism. He lives in East London where he spends his time pondering linguistic oddities and running story ideas by his cat.

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Books by Mahmud El Sayed

Anarchy of Dreams

By Mahmud El Sayed

Book #2

The sparks of revolution set an entire generation ship ablaze in the cinematic conclusion to Mahmud El-Sayed’s Arabfuturist debut The Republic of Memory.

The Safina is a city ship trapped in dark space. Two hundred years into i...

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The Republic of Memory

A Novel