
Amar Diwakar
Journalist at Freelance
Labor and Tech Fellow at Rest of World
Conjuring up words on global affairs, tech, music | @SOAS alum | usual disclaimers
Articles
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1 week ago |
restofworld.org | Amar Diwakar |Jane Seidel
Ameca, a humanoid robot, smiled and blinked at the crowd at Dubai AI Week 2025, a celebration of all things artificial intelligence. Landmark announcements marked the event, including a $545 million hyperscale data center to supply Microsoft and Dubai’s first PhD program in AI. AI engineer Nair, 29, felt inspired. Since moving to the United Arab Emirates last October from Kerala, India, she had applied to hundreds of entry-level jobs and faced rejections, scams and exploitative offers.
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2 months ago |
restofworld.org | Amar Diwakar
On a chilly night in January, Ajay Sreekumar stood outside Dubai’s Museum of the Future and craned his head up to the sky. He watched a swarm of 600 drones whirl some 400 feet above in the dark, humming as they formed an LED-illuminated portrait of the city’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Over the next nine minutes, the drones transitioned seamlessly between multicolored and animated 3D images, including a spinning globe and a scientist inspecting the DNA double helix.
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Oct 12, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Amar Diwakar
Culture9 hours agoWomen in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Knowthecollector.com - Rachel Sweeney • 9hMany conventions from historical, Western societies have been patriarchal in nature.
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Oct 12, 2024 |
aljazeera.com | Amar Diwakar
On an early morning car ride from Tashkent to Samarkand after a performance in 1983, the Uzbek pop singer Nasiba Abdullaeva tuned in to an Afghan radio station by accident and found herself entranced by a song that was playing. “From its first notes, the song fascinated me, and I fell in love with it,” Abdullaeva recalled. She asked the driver to pull over so she could quickly memorise the lines.
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Jan 17, 2024 |
thejuggernaut.com | Amar Diwakar
The accessible, diasporic brew is a byproduct of Gulf modernization — and its insidious underbelly. Hani A. pulls up in a Toyota Land Cruiser outside Oyoun Al Reem, a cafe in Dubai’s Za’beel district, and honks twice. A young man hustles out and comes up to the car. Hani gestures using rapid finger movements: two orders of karak chai. We promptly receive the brew, piping hot, in six-ounce paper cups for 1.50 dirhams ($0.41) each.
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