Yaqteenya: The Old World

by Yasser Bahjatt

Editions:Kindle

The first ever alternative history written in Arabic.

Yaqteenya is facing its first civil war, To save it from it self, Al-Baz needs to brake its #1 law and leave Yaqteenay to find answers about the truth that the rulers of the land.

Published: August 5, 2015
Publisher: Yatakhayaloon
Illustrators:

Sarah Alhazmi

Cover Artists:

Ibraheem Abbas

Genres:

Fantasy, Fantasy - Alternate History, Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Alternative History

Tags:

Tropes: Conspiracy, Lost Civilization, Parallel Worlds, Past People/Future Tech, Quest
Languages Available: English, Arabic
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters
Tropes: Conspiracy, Lost Civilization, Parallel Worlds, Past People/Future Tech, Quest
Languages Available: English, Arabic
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters

Excerpt:

"Yaqteenya: The Old World" as the 3rd book from Yatakhayaloon, where the author is exploring parts of both Islamic and world History in ways that would force you to re-think everything you thought was indisputable, regardless of what your background is, forcing you to imagine what the world could have looked like and how scientific development relates to both our history and ideology.

How would the world look like if major historical events in the Islamic world played out differently? How would technology develop?
#Yaqteenya is an alternate history novel that explores those questions from an Middle Eastern point of view, in a setting that is part SciFi and part fantasy.

Yaqteenya is facing its first civil war, To save it from it self, Al-Baz needs to break its #1 law and leave Yaqteenay to find answers about the truth that the rulers of the land.

About the Author

A technologist & futurist who is the first Saudi to ever go to Singularity University's Graduate Study Program where he was the lead engineer on the Matternet project.
He has a BS in Computer Engineering from King Abdulaziz University.

Yasser is an active member of the TED community as he was the first to translate TED talks through the open translation project to Arabic and was also the #1 most active TED translator for a period of time. He was the organizer or co-organizer of several TEDx events including TEDxArabia, TEDxJeddah, TEDxKAU & TEDxUQU.

Yasser's talk at TED@Doha about the relationship between SciFi and Scientific development announced the launch of Yatakhayaloon (Arabic for "They are Imagining"), an initiative to kick start the Arabian contemporary SciFi culture, in a 20 year experiment to prove that SciFi growth results in Scientific development growth.

His novel Yaqteenya is the first ever Arabian alternate history novel. He also co-authored the English edition of the two Arabian best sellers HWJN, Somewhere & Binyameen.

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