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Gaming Islam @gamingislamshow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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. 🎮 #gaming #orientalism #sexuality

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Sex and Orientalism

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Gaming Islam @gamingislamshow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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! 🎮 #cod #callofduty

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Rewriting History in Call of Duty

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Gaming Islam @gamingislamshow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Where does the iconography of flags in CoD come from? Learn more ‪@VideoGamingIslam‬ #cod #callofduty #gaming 🎮

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The Flags & Killers of Call of Duty

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ghenwa @ghenwa.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to share the new episode of @gamingislamshow.bsky.social about @inkle.co's Heaven's Vault! @doostdar.bsky.social

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Gaming Islam @gamingislamshow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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...

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Heaven's Vault - 1 Introduction

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Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار @doostdar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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...

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Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار @doostdar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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...

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