The future is, at its essence, a matter of reading and not writing, and so it can only be read where it has not yet been penned.

My prediction for the Middle East in 300 years is that by then the world—and not just the Middle East—will embrace a simulation theory.

When people look to the future, or when writers write about it, it’s as if the future is something that will happen later. In reality, there is no such thing...

“One character dies and another comes to take his place with the same form of expression, the same form of indoctrination, the same form of thinking, of education, of many...

I don’t think that the future will necessarily be dystopian or bad. Any country or society can change drastically in just 50 or 100 years. We are talking about 300...

For a long time, my country, Syria, has been subjected to an exceptional state of affairs: emergency laws and state agencies that regulated obedience. I think that if this “exceptional...