Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Tabur, M. (2024). Review of Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World, by Jörg Matthias Determann. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(4), 686-688. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743825000029
Kayışçı Akkoyun, B., Atasoy, E., & Tabur, M. (2024). Critical Forum Introduction: Cultural Encounters and Textual Speculations in the Mediterranean. Utopian studies, 35(1), 127-131. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.1.0127
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227682134/utopianstudies_35_1_127.pdf
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227682134/utopianstudies_35_1_127.pdf
Tabur, M. (2024). Settling the Desert, Unsettling the Mirage: Urban Ecologies of Arab and Gulf Futurisms in Ahmed Naji's Using Life. Utopian studies, 35(1), 187-208. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.35.1.0187
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227685661/utopianstudies_35_1_187.pdf
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227685661/utopianstudies_35_1_187.pdf
Popularising publications
Chattopadhyay, B., & Tabur, M. (2024). CoFutures. Web publication/site, Sumac Space. https://sumac.space/dialogues/cofutures-bodhisattva-chattopadhyay-and-merve-tabur/
Chattopadhyay, B., & Tabur, M. (2024). CoFutures. In E. Bouffard, N. Dehina, & J. Grandjean (Eds.), Arabofuturs: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires (pp. 127-131). Manuella Editions.
2023
Scholarly publications
Tabur, M. (2023). Once upon a time in the anthropocene: myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction. Middle Eastern Literatures, 26(1), 76-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2223161
2019
Scholarly publications
Tabur, M. (2019). A View from the Moon: Allegories of Representation in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm and H. G. Wells. Alif, 39, 63-90. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26596424