Arabs design video game

DAMASCUS ­ To turn Arab children away from American video games featuring US soldiers killing Iraqis and Afghans, a Syrian publishing house has designed a video game on the Palestinian uprising, or intifada.

The new game is called Underash, and its hero is a young Palestinian stone-thrower, Ahmed, fighting Israeli soldiers and settlers.

"We seek to counterbalance the poisonous ideas conveyed by American video games to our children," said Hassan Salem, executive director of the project at Dar al-Fikr publishing. -- Sapa-AFP