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Amy Roko takes on a journey across the MDL Beast festival in #Riyadh, a historic moment for youth culture in the Kingdom. Meanwhile, she talks to Fahad Al Saud about the steps he has made to change perceptions about the region through storytelling and entertainment in comic books.
When the Berlin-based Serbian designer Saša Kovačević, the creator of the five-year-old fashion line Sadak, set out to design this season’s collection, he wanted to create a post-modern version of an Islamic miniature—a millennia-old form of painting that depicted historical events in rich pigment and detail.
Terrorist, cartoon stereotype, evil oppressive dictator. It's through those lenses — those unfair representations of a complex, massive grouping of a wide variety of people and what they believe in — that much of the non-Arab world sees the population of the Middle East.
The world is changing fast. To meet the challenges all children are facing, we need innovations from the ground-up, developed by the people they aim to serve. We also need new types of partnerships and collaborations for scaling startups and taking local ideas global.
Fahad Al Saud, the grandson of Saudi Arabia’s King, was not satisfied with mainstream media representations of Arabs. So he founded NA3M Games, a gaming and multi-media incubator based in Amman and Copenhagen. NA3M, which stands for new Arab media, seeks to create and invoke change through innovation and creativity, creating Arabic entertainment online that is relatable.
During last week's Games For Change festival in New York, Prince Fahad Al Saud took the stage to shed some light on the power games and other popular media have to shape human culture, both in the Middle East and the world at large.
Saudi-Arabien ist das einzige Land der Welt, in dem Frauen nicht ans Steuer dürfen. In einem Computerspiel brettern sie nun auf Motorrädern rum. Die Idee hatte ausgerechnet der Großneffe des Königs.
Commercial video games often show Middle Eastern people as the villains -- if they can tell the difference between different countries and languages at all. Prince Fahad Al Saud is aiming to help change that.
When one thinks of catalysts of cultural change, Arabic video games are likely not the first thing that comes to mind. However, that could be quickly changing as game developers begin to see their audiences through a diverse cultural lens. This piece posted on the Gamasutra blog discusses how one Arab game company is working to change cultural perspectives through gaming.
As of right now, the only way Saudi Arabian women are allowed to drive is by motorcycle – in the upcoming game, Saudi Girl Revolution.