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“Um-al-zaytoun”
Rafif Kalantan & Ashraf Abi Said
  • games
Thursday 21, Friday 22, Saturday 23, Sunday 24
Location : Performance factory - EXPO

After a long struggle with occupation, Palestine and its people are finally liberated, they return home to find the remains of what the soldiers destroyed, with only a few exceptions remaining intact, including an ancient mighty olive tree that stood proud and strong, known as Um Al-Zaytoun, or Mother of Olives.
Play as Nour, a young adult who returned to Palestine with their Teta, or Grandma. Discover the story and struggle of the Palestinian people after the Nakba while recreating products from the olive tree made by traditional means.

BIO
Rafif Kalantan is a BAFTA Student Award winner, game and narrative designer. Very passionate about the Arabic language, she is working on a better representation of Arab and Middle Eastern in games.

Ashraf Abi Said is a game developer with a whimsical toolset centering around development, narrative design, and event/community creation and building. During the day, he works as a Unity game developer at Nifty Craft and as a Narrative Design instructor at the American University of Beirut, and during the afternoons and evenings he works on a ton of other projects, helps grow communities, or just have fun!

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