https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8419-the_clash_of_digitalizations

The Devolution of Arab Men from Humans to Digital Fodder

This talk discusses the representation of Arab males in video games and the adverse effect it has on the collective political imagination. Anonymous military-aged Arab men become increasingly the exception to the laws of human rights, and become default targets for conventional and unmanned drone attacks. This devolution is seen through the lens of the changing nature of conflict through digitalization, the collapse of the nation state in Iraq and Syria, and the future of war.

['Saud Al-Zaid']