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Emad El-Din Aysha is an academic researcher, author, translator, and freelance journalist residing in Cairo, Egypt. He is a native speaker of both English and Arabic and a member of the Egyptian Writers’ Union and Egyptian Society for Science Fiction. He has one sci-fi anthology to his name (in Arabic) and one nonfiction book (in English) as a coauthor and coeditor, Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2022). He has also translated a variety of novels, in different genres, from Arabic to English by Egyptian authors.