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Literary Reimaginings

Major Palestinian novels interpreted as bilingual cinematic stories without flattening their emotional logic.

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The works themselves

Returning to Haifa. Men in the Sun.

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Returning to Haifa

Based on the novel by Ghassan Kanafani

A bilingual short-form reinterpretation built around return, estrangement, and the unresolved emotional geometry of home, memory, and loss.

Arabic edition

Returning to Haifa — Arabic edition

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English edition

Returning to Haifa — English edition

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Men in the Sun

Based on the novel by Ghassan Kanafani

A bilingual literary reinterpretation shaped through compressed cinematic pacing, memory-heavy atmosphere, and an anime-inflected visual language.

English edition

Men in the Sun — English edition

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Arabic edition

Men in the Sun — Arabic edition

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Date
Ongoing
For
Cultural, literary, and bilingual audiences
Role
Creative direction, visual interpretation, bilingual adaptation, and release design
Language
Arabic and English

The premise

What needed form?

Adapt significant literature into short visual form without turning it into plot summary or losing memory, atmosphere, and pressure.

The approach

Decisions that made the work cohere

  1. Built each edition around a governing emotional image rather than a scene checklist.
  2. Developed Arabic and English editions as related editorial objects, not literal duplicates.

Public artifacts

See what was designed and released.

Selected material showing decisions and outputs without crossing privacy boundaries.

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Men in the Sun, bilingual visual interpretation
Returning to Haifa video thumbnail
Returning to Haifa, bilingual visual interpretation

Deliverables

  • Bilingual visual editions, posters, short-form releases, and series identity

Verified result

A growing public series beginning with Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa.

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