The Islamic Golden Age was Erased. This Video Game Brings it Back

There’s a new online game that’s taking players on a quest back in time to collect ancient artifacts and solve puzzles to preserve the knowledge that came out of the Islamic Golden Age. It’s called “Vanished: Puzzle Quest,” made by Unity Productions Foundation, a group whose mission is to combat bigotry and Islamophobia through media.

Producers Alex Kronemer and Ariella Gayotto Hohl join Mehdi Hasan to explain how gaming can be a tool to combat bigotry, Islamophobia in the US, and whether even Mehdi himself, who was never good at video games, could master “Vanished.”

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