[2][3] Palestinian speculative fiction if a sub-genre of Arabic speculative fiction written through the lens of a people experiencing settler occupation after the State of Israel was established in 1948, along with the concurrent effort to expel Palestinians from the claimed land, called Nakba.
[3] Since then, people have been arrested for protesting, and have faced extreme punishments if the security forces have even suspicions of disagreeing with those in power.
[3] With activism and creativity being silenced and oppressed, many literary critics have turned to speculative fiction to express and comment on the dystopian qualities of their daily lives.
One example of speculative fiction is Otared by Egyptian writer Mohammed Rabie which follows an apocalyptic future in Egypt that ends in many deaths.
[5] Nawal El Saadawi was a feminist writer who wrote from the unique perspective of experience womanhood in a politically oppressive state.