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Ayah Bdeir is an entrepreneur, inventor, and interactive artist. She is the founder and CEO of littleBits. Bdeir earned a Masters of Science degree from the MIT Media Lab. littleBits joined the 2016 Disney Accelerator program. It has also partnered with Pearson, one of the leading curriculum companies in the world to co-create curriculum to support their Science and Engineering program.
EE is an interactive installation that examines people’s interaction with Lebanese electricity, an infamously broken infrastructure that they have learnt to live without, or in spite of. I admire it because over the past 25 years, electricity shortages in Lebanon have reached 20 hours a day, creating a sinister imaginary persona that commands life across social, financial and political lines, and seems to constantly play hard to get.
