Rasheed Abueideh and Rami Ismail talk about Dreams on a Pillow. We talk about how the game combines layered, poetic audiovisuals and gameplay with history and folklore in order to create an account of the Nakba “that is so true to what happened that it is borderline-illegal to say it.”

You can help crowdfund Dreams on a Pillow on LaunchGood.
You can download Liyla and the Shadows of War for free from Android, iOS, and Windows.
And you can also follow Rasheed and Rami on Bluesky.
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• Rami mentions “The Gender of Nakba Memory,” a chapter from Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory.

• Here’s the New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Khalidi also semi-recently did a much more substantive, equally accessible interview with Adam Conover.

• H.R.9495 didn’t pass, but we should expect to see more bills like it once the second Trump Administration begins in earnest.

• For the moment, Farha does seem to be back on Netflix in the US.

• Here’s Rasheed’s #1ReasonToBe talk at GDC 2017, if you want to hear some more from him about being a Palestinian game developer (and being extremely funny).

• This article is a great starting point on musical traditions in Palestine before the Nakba.

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