{"id":36467,"date":"2019-03-20T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36467"},"modified":"2019-03-20T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:23:07","slug":"us-grants-iraq-90-day-waiver-to-buy-iranian-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36467","title":{"rendered":"US grants Iraq 90-day waiver to buy Iranian energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nSALZBURG, Austria: Abdullah Adnan Karam stares down at the computer screen and watches the story of his escape from war-torn Syria to his new home in Austria play out step by step as a game.<br \/>The 23-year-old left the northwestern city of Hama in 2014, crossed the border into Turkey then started the long and arduous trek through Europe.<br \/>A year later, after his arrival in Austria, he bumped into games developer Georg Hobmeier in Salzburg and the pair started working on what would become the PC\/Mac game \u201cPath Out.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWhat the player is kind of playing is part of my story, let\u2019s say. My (personal) story had more action in it,\u201d Karam told Reuters Television.<br \/>Karam provided the story and Hobmeier\u2019s company Causa Creations, alongside Vienna-based firm Wobblersound and Austrian-American graphic designer Brian Main, worked on the technical side.<br \/>Players can choose different routes and meet different fates. \u201cRemember guys, don\u2019t get me killed,\u201d Karam says in a promotional video.<br \/>The story starts before the war, letting players move Karam through his home, meeting friends and relatives, before the scene degenerates into a battlefield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALZBURG, Austria: Abdullah Adnan Karam stares down at the computer screen and watches the story of his escape from war-torn Syria to his new home in Austria play out step by step as a game.The 23-year-old left the northwestern city of Hama in 2014, crossed the border into Turkey then started the long and arduous&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}