Drone Technologies and the Future of Surveillance in the Middle East: Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey in conversation.

Heba Y. Amin and I have been focusing on for the last two years as we prepared “Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork” (Sternberg Press, 2020). We launched the book as part of Amin’s show, “When I see the future, I close my eyes,” which I curated for the Mosaic Rooms in London. The edited conversation below took place on the October 7, 2020, and throughout it we attempted to convey the ways in which the apparently regional politics of the Middle East, as evidenced in “The General’s Stork,” relate to broader global concerns about surveillance, dictatorships, and the emergence of digital authoritarianism.