Gaming Islam
@gamingislamshow.bsky.social
two professors (@ghenwa.bsky.social & @doostdar.bsky.social) talk about videogames and their complicated relationship to Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East https://tinyurl.com/IntroducingGamingIslam
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Where does the iconography of flags in CoD come from? Learn more @VideoGamingIslam #cod #callofduty #gaming 🎮
The Flags & Killers of Call of Duty
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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! 🎮 #cod #callofduty
Rewriting History in Call of Duty
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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
Sex and Orientalism
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Gaming Islam's first episode takes on the juggernaut Call of Duty: Modern Warfare www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtel...
CoD: Modern Warfare - 1 Introduction
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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...
Heaven's Vault - 1 Introduction
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