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Project Speak2Tweet Heba Y. Amin: Project Speak2Tweet (2011 - ongoing). Photograph by Andy Stagg, courtesy of The Mosaic Rooms On January 27th, 2011 Egyptian authorities succeeded in shutting down the country’s international Internet access points in response to growing protests. Over one weekend, a group of programmers developed a platform called Speak2Tweet that would allow [...]

Operation Sunken Sea Heba Y. Amin: Operation Sunken Sea (2018 - ongoing). Photograph by Andy Stagg, courtesy of The Mosaic Rooms Invested in the power of technology to generate a new future for humankind, Operation Sunken Sea initiates a large-scale infrastructural intervention unparalleled in scale: a new era of human progress will be initiated through [...]

The General's Stork In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork, accusing it of espionage. This incident, that seems initially amusing, became the impetus for Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork (2016-ongoing), an ongoing project that investigates the all-too-deadly politics of aerial surveillance in the Middle East.  Online Book Launch | Heba Y. Amin: The [...]