Alireza Doostdar علیرضا دوستدار

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

07.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

07.06.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

07.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

02.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

02.06.2025 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Part 3 is about systematic Israeli assaults on higher education in Gaza before and after 2023, and the struggle for education under genocide.

01.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

01.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

01.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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...

01.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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...

01.06.2025 23:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0