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Documenting the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work.Heba Y. Amin's The General's Stork explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird's eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, Amin explores the extensive research that went into the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work. She also gives further background as to how, in 2013, the Egyptian authorities sought to detain a migratory stork that it accused of being an international spy.

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Heba Y. Amin is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher, and lecturer based in Berlin. She has had recent exhibitions at the 10th Berlin Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennale, and K nstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa within the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University.

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