Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “🎮 Six Days in Fallujah: Is killing Arabs just a game to some? | The Stream” – below is their description.
Six Days in Fallujah is a first-person shooter game that aims to recreate the stories of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians during the deadliest battle of the Iraq war. But critics say the game – based on the second US-led assault of Fallujah in 2004 – whitewashes critical history of the war and dehumanises Arabs.
Merging documentary elements and gameplay, Six Days in Fallujah was initially promoted in 2009 and quickly cancelled following criticism by family members of Iraq War veterans and anti-war groups. It now has a new development team and publisher with a release planned for later this year.
In this episode of The Stream, we’ll discuss the impact of how war is portrayed in video games and the controversy over Six Days in Fallujah.
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Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in Western Asia. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shabakis, Armenians, Mandaeans, Circassians, Sabians and Kawliya. Around 99% of the country’s 38 million citizens are Muslims, with small minorities of Christians, Yarsans, Yezidis and Mandeans also present. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish.
Iraq has a coastline measuring 58 km (36 miles) on the northern Persian Gulf and encompasses the Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain, the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run south through Iraq and into the Shatt al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. These rivers provide Iraq with significant amounts of fertile land. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation.
Iraq is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of 19 governorates, four of which make up the autonomous Kurdistan Region. Disputes over the sovereignty of Kurdistan Region continue.
Iraq is a founding member of the UN as well as of the Arab League, OIC, Non-Aligned Movement and the IMF.