Games & Resistance

By: Douglas Wilson & Chad Toprak
  • Summary

  • Games & Resistance is a podcast miniseries interviewing Palestinian, Lebanese, and other artists making games amid and about genocide and occupation. The interviews are co-hosted by Douglas Wilson and Chad Toprak.
    Copyright 2025
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Episodes
  • 01 - Rasheed Abueideh
    Jan 10 2025
    Episode 01 - Rasheed Abueideh

    For our first episode, we talk to Rasheed Abueideh, a Palestinian software engineer and game designer who lives in the West Bank. We talk to Rasheed about his award-winning 2016 game, Liyla and The Shadows of War, as well as his current project, Dreams on a Pillow, a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba. Rasheed is currently crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow on LaunchGood (ending on January 13).

    Logo illustration by Elyce Phillips. Jingle by David Kanaga.

    Links:

    Dreams on a Pillow (LaunchGood campaign) https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/dreams_on_a_pillow

    Liyla and The Shadows of War (2016) https://rasheedabueideh.itch.io/liyla-and-the-shadows-of-war

    Rasheed's 2017 GDC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSY4My1JIY

    The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe https://oneworld-publications.com/work/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/

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