We break down the Orientalist imaginations behind gendered stereotypes. In the episode, we show how Heaven's Vault tries to push back against the image of the harem girl in its central character, Aliya Elasra. 🎮
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Who caused the Highway of Death? Why does Call of Duty use real-world events, but re-write their perpetrators? Watch @VideoGamingIslam to find out more! 🎮
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Where does the iconography of flags in CoD come from? Learn more @VideoGamingIslam
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Excited to share the new episode of @gamingislamshow.bsky.social about @inkle.co's Heaven's Vault! @doostdar.bsky.social
We have a new episode on @gamingislamshow
discussing orientalism in video games, with a focus on inkle studios' Heaven's Vault. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfHc...
Part 3 is about systematic Israeli assaults on higher education in Gaza before and after 2023, and the struggle for education under genocide.
Part 2 explores his research on agriculture, food systems, and Palestinian resilience in the face of Israeli assaults on the totality of the “food value chain”--the decades-long attacks that have rendered the Palestinian population vulnerable to engineered scarcity and famine.
Part 1 of the interview covers his early life under Israeli occupation, education at Al-Azhar University-Gaza, and what it was like to experience the first and second Intifadas as a student and instructor.
Ahmed Abu Shaban
For the Gaza Scholasticide project, we spoke with Ahmed Abu Shaban, a professor and dean of agriculture at Al-Azhar University-Gaza.
You can listen here:
voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticid...
Mkhaimar Abusada
I'm part of a team documenting scholasticide in Gaza - Israel's devastation of educational infrastructure & its killing of faculty & students.
For our first interview, we spoke with Mkhaimar Abusada, a long-time poli. sci. professor at Al-Azhar University.
voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticid...