In Palestine, One Game Developer Wants To Share a Dream of His Land’s Beautiful Past

Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh in Nablus is making Dreams on a Pillow, a game about a woman fleeing the 1948 Nakba.

It follows his earlier game Liyla and the Shadows of War, which portrayed the 2014 Gaza war.

Abueideh says he wants interactive storytelling to show what Palestine was like before displacement and war.

The article highlights how occupation, economic hardship, and instability make game development especially difficult in Palestine.

The project uses video games to preserve historical memory, challenge war-centric imagery, and humanize the conflict.