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An aspirational lifestyle has emerged in the Gulf, one based on positivity, efficiency and productivity. Its proponents circulate on social media, TV and YouTube changing the way that we interact at home, in public and at work. Positivity and productivity are now the markers of success and there are considerable efforts to mold society into a happy, efficient, productive one. What are the implications of applying the same strategies meant for individual positivity and “improvement” to the many?

Ahaad Alamoudi begins to answer these questions in her latest body of work, Heat Burns, …