You’re probably sitting in your favorite reading spot right now, safe and comfortable. In the next 2 minutes, I’m going to share something that might make your stomach drop. Picture this: Your son is asleep in the next room. The letter trembling in your hands bears a royal seal – he’s been chosen for the empire’s [...]
It started with a simple question at the dinner table. “Wesam, will computers have souls?” I set down my fork, thinking about the AI art flooding my social feeds. About ChatGPT writing stories. About algorithms trying to capture human experience. Here’s what I told her: Picture a chess computer, methodically calculating every move. Checkmate is better than material gain. [...]
Picture this: You’re sitting in a darkened theater. On screen, a character stares pensively out a window for five minutes. Nothing happens. The scene is beautifully shot. Critics call it “contemplative.” You’re fighting the urge to check your phone. I get it. I’m the same way. While others bask in the “vibes” of arthouse cinema, I’m silently screaming, [...]
Ever had a scene stick in your head for years? There’s this moment in Prometheus where a woman uses a robotic surgery pod to cut an alien out of her own body. Pure tension. Raw survival. I was wincing the whole time. What’s weird, though? I can’t remember much else about the movie’s complex alien mythology. All [...]
Stand in the horror aisle of any 90s video store. Hulking shadows on VHS covers. Raw, primal imagery that made parents nervous. Stories that critics dismissed as “low brow” but held a magnificent truth: Some tales aren’t meant to be respectable. After 20 years in healthcare and tech, I finally understand what those “unambitious” horror stories got right. [...]
In Gaza, silence reigns. The crunch of rubble underfoot is the only sound. A child’s teddy bear, caked in dust, gazes skyward with lifeless button eyes. In the distance, smoke rises—a family’s home, gone. This is the first act of a grand, tragic opera on the world stage. You’re in the audience. Smartphones in hand, your [...]
Constantinople, early 1400’s. A mother makes a desperate choice to save her son. The consequences? Unthinkable. This is the premise of “The Lesser Evil,” our new comic that’s causing a bit of an uproar in the Muslim community. Why? Two reasons: We’ve got background music in our trailer.We’re making a comic book with drawn characters. Now, let’s cool it with [...]
Picture this: A mother weeps at midnight in Constantinople. Her son has been chosen for a “great honor.” But she knows the horrifying truth: the city’s elite are undead monsters hungry for fresh blood. This isn’t the opening of a typical fantasy story. It’s the premise of our new comic, “The Lesser Evil.” We’ve just released a 37-second [...]
Did you know Dracula had a Muslim arch-nemesis? History conveniently forgot to mention that Radu the Handsome, brother to Vlad the Impaler, was a devout Muslim. He didn’t just sip tea with the Ottomans—he helped them conquer Constantinople. But Hollywood had other plans for Muslims on screen. Fact: 936 out of 1,000 pre-9/11 films portrayed Arabs and Muslims [...]