Rasheed Abueideh is an award-winning Palestinian creative director and game designer. A father of five children living in Nablus, Palestine, Rasheed developed Liyla and The Shadows of War (2016) to shine a light on the plight of children in the 2014 Gaza War, receiving - along with other global recognition - the Excellence in Storytelling award at the International Mobile Game Awards. He is currently working on a new game focused on the events of the 1948 Nakba.