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What We Like: 'Financial Times' on gaming stereotyping of Arab world

‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Medal of Honor’ have featured reductive portrayals but the tide is starting to turn
What We Like: 'Financial Times' on gaming stereotyping of Arab world

According to the Financial Times, games Call of Duty and Medal of Honor have featured reductive portrayals but the tide is starting to turn.

In his article, Tom Faber writes:" In series such as Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield, the Arab world is reduced to a playground of war — wastelands of rubble and sand. “We’re being used as a media shortcut for evil,” says Dutch-Egyptian game developer and advocate Rami Ismail. “[Developers] are not trying to represent our culture, they’re trying to use it as a backdrop for violence.”

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