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          "caption": "Crowds of people outside if Acre",
          "credit": "Assassins Creed: Fact or Fiction"
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        "text": {
          "headline": "Assassins Creed: Fact or Fiction Timeline",
          "text": "Assassin’s Creed: Fact or Fiction? Show Notes\nTitle: Assassin’s Creed: Fact or Fiction: Episode 1\nAuthors:\nAndrew Wise, Sabrina Gill, Diego Regalado, Airiss Tsang\nDescription:\nHistory has often been left to the books. But with recent technological advances, how can we expand the media that our society uses to learn? Video games are one such way. Join us in our topic of conversation today, Assassin’s Creed, which uses some historical elements to tell a story of an Assassin during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. To expand on the accuracy of the game our authors hosted a guest, Dr. Thabit Abdullah, professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern histories at York University. Together we talk about whether or not Assassin’s Creed is a good example of video games being used for historical educational purposes.\nAcknowledgments:\nWe would like to thank York University’s Media Creation Lab Team, for guiding us through this process and allowing us to use their equipment. We would also like to thank Kris Joseph for his assistance with the website. And to our special guest Professor Thabit Abdullah, we would like to thank him for allowing us to interview him and providing us with background information.\nGuests:\nProfessor Thabit Abdullah\nReferences: The educational value of Assassin’s Creed. Curio. CBC News, 2018. https://curio-ca.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/en/catalog/54f2d071-afa0-40d9-8152-3bf8e0b78c9a. Milligan, Markus. “The Real Assassin’s Creed.” HeritageDaily, January 7, 2023. https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/the-real-assassins-creed/143870. Moss, Richard. “Assassin’s Creed: An Oral History.” Polygon, October 3, 2018. https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/3/17924770/assassins-creed-an-oral-history-patrice-desilets. Santana, Ricardo. “14: Christian and Muslim Mentalities during the Third Crusade in Acre, Damascus and Jerusalem, Represented in Assassin’s Creed.” issuu, December 5, 2022. https://issuu.com/theuniversityofwinchester/docs/mamg22_proceedings/s/17585385. Taher, Hassan. “Representation of History in Assassin’s Creed.” 2018. https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9012747&fileOId=9012752. "
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