There's been some very good science fiction coming out of parts of the Arab world and North Africa. People there have been confronting terrorism, crackdowns, propaganda, rationing, and all sorts of horrible things, and to criticize such things, to describe their daily life honestly, would invite a government crackdown or assaults by crazy clerics. But they can cast such events in a future world, changing all the names and locations and particulars, to get to deeper questions.
It sounds intriguing because it wouldn't be the usual kind of sci-fi, an extrapolation from Western society with air cars and laser pistols.