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>"Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation."
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Drone Technologies and the Future of Surveillance in the Middle East I first became aware of Heba Y. Aminā€™s project ā€œThe Generalā€™s Storkā€ in 2016 when, during a meeting in Berlin, she outlined the ongoing research she had been undertaking in relation to it. This conversation resonated with me for some time because, even though the factual basis for her research is straightforward, its implications, as I began to understand, are profound. In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork that was accused of espionage. Reportedly captured by a fisherman, who viewed the bird with suspicion after noticing an electronic device attached to it, the bird was handed over to the local police station in Qena (a city situated on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt). Upon further investigation, it transpired that the ā€œcamera deviceā€ was in fact a functioning tracking instrument attached by Hungarian scientists who were researching avian migratory habits. While the entire incident may at first appear risible, the event revealed a nation-wide level of mistrust in relation to aerial surveillance and its threat ā€” a level of apprehension that, as we will see in the conversation below, was and remains understandable if we consider the extent to which military techniques of visualization define and ultimately delimit the topography of the Middle East.
Drone Technologies and the Future of Surveillance in the Middle East I first became aware of Heba Y. Aminā€™s project ā€œThe Generalā€™s Storkā€ in 2016 when, during a meeting in Berlin, she outlined the ongoing research she had been undertaking in relation to it. This conversation resonated with me for some time because, even though the factual basis for her research is straightforward, its implications, as I began to understand, are profound. In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork that was accused of espionage. Reportedly captured by a fisherman, who viewed the bird with suspicion after noticing an electronic device attached to it, the bird was handed over to the local police station in Qena (a city situated on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt). Upon further investigation, it transpired that the ā€œcamera deviceā€ was in fact a functioning tracking instrument attached by Hungarian scientists who were researching avian migratory habits. While the entire incident may at first appear risible, the event revealed a nation-wide level of mistrust in relation to aerial surveillance and its threat ā€” a level of apprehension that, as we will see in the conversation below, was and remains understandable if we consider the extent to which military techniques of visualization define and ultimately delimit the topography of the Middle East.
>"Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation."
>"Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation."
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