Farah is a lawyer and writer based in Amman, Jordan. In a letter to her future self, she once asked, “Wherever I am and whatever I’m doing, am I operating on the amorphous and vague ideals that I want to desperately apply but haven’t actually? I’m talking about preventing, or in the least not participating in the exploitation of others, striving for (economic) justice, working towards a post-colonial, de-colonial, anti-colonial or whatever have you future and existence?” She still doesn’t have a confident answer.
While deception had always been a feature of warfare, the emergence of radio communication, ciphers, and submarines created a new theater for subterfuge in the ‘Great War.’