Hikayat Jnoubieh — Tales of South Lebanon
A working proof of the reusable Quiska workflow: a collection of oral folk tales, preserved and brought to life across languages — with a human approving every word, voice and visual.
The source material
A collection of South Lebanese oral tales in Arabic, rich in dialect, folk verse and place — the kind of material where every word and its order matters.
The production challenge
Preserve the exact Arabic (including correct right-to-left order), structure it into cinematic scenes, and make it reach an international audience — without ever rewriting the author.
Source preservation
Quiska extracted the manuscript text precisely and stored it as the canonical record. Nothing downstream alters those words.
Scene structure
The text was segmented into evenly-sized scenes the author can split, merge and edit — turning a long manuscript into a cinematic sequence.
Language outputs
Faithful translations preserve meaning for an international audience, alongside the original Arabic reader.
Human review
Each scene’s translation, narration, artwork and motion is proposed by AI and approved by a person before it can be published.
The final experience
An installable, multilingual reader with narration, cinematic motion and a story map — plus export packages.
Hikayat Jnoubieh is presented here as a case study of the reusable Quiska workflow — not as the entire product. Private manuscript content is never shown publicly without authorization.