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Story of the Sixth Emirate
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Moataz Abo Moch
Published: May 22 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Can reimagining the future shape a narrative? What is the future we missed-and what still awaits us?
Story of the Sixth Emirate unfolds in a speculative future where political exhaustion gives way to an unexpected experiment in governance: the rise of a sixth autonomous Emirate in the Palestinian territories.
Ali Al-Hamed, a seasoned yet disillusioned politician, finds himself navigating shifting alliances, fragile loyalties, and the blurred line between reform and manipulation. Parallel to his journey is that of his sister, Hayat-an officer in the Emirate's security apparatus-whose investigations uncover layers of internal corruption and foreign interference.
As past trauma collides with uncertain change, the siblings must decide: is this a genuine path forward, or another elegantly packaged form of control?
Rooted in political realism yet charged with speculative imagination, Story of the Sixth Emirate explores power, memory, and the quiet question of what a just future might or might not actually look like-for Palestine, and for all those caught between identity and survival.
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