M H Matar’s Hypertext Notebook

This is the website of M H Matar. I write about novels, filmmaking, and game design. I am best known for my writings about Arabic PVP card games and worldbuilding; the novel Speaker and the screenplay Shiver; the unwritten Cairo; and the day-to-day craft of making things.

Navigation: for information about my site’s philosophy & method, see the About page; for what I am doing now, see the Now page; for the books and films, see Books and Films; for everything else, see All Notes or the dated Scribbles.

Features: to use dark-mode ([auto][light][dark]) or reader-mode ([auto][on][off]), or disable popups ([on][off]), or search the site, use the floating toggle bar in the upper-right corner; for more, see All Notes.