Fatima Al Qadiri | War Games
“Al Qadiri was nine when Iraq invaded Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf War. A year later she was playing the Gulf war-inspired Desert Strike video game. ‘It was the most terrifying sci-fi experience of my childhood,’ she recalls. Her new album, also called Desert Strike is an audio memoir of that time. ‘The most surreal thing was the breakdown of society, and when they burned the oil wells and the sky turned black. It felt like being on the surface of the moon. This record is about the relationship between the virtual and reality of war.’”