Based in Lebanon·UAE·Saudi Arabia·France
Wherever your story lives
Maze of Tales designs experiences, immersive installations, brand activations, festival spaces and escape games, scenographic design, production design, and creative production, where the story carries the brief in the body, not in slides.
حكاية. مكان. عالَم.
Maze of Tales began with two storytellers, Carla Kamel and Karim Khneisser, who fell for the same idea from opposite ends of the craft: a story lands hardest when you can walk inside it. Carla builds the world and its scenography. Karim designs the experience, the game, the sound. Where film stops at the screen, they kept going, into the space itself.
From their first builds in Beirut to activations across the Gulf, every project starts the same way: a story written into its space before a single wall goes up. The science, the brand, the message, carried in the body, not the slides. We script the entry, the threshold, the discovery, the coda. Then we build it.
We design experiences people walk into, and build them from idea to end. You bring the goal, a brand to launch, a festival to fill, a story to tell. We handle the concept, the space, the build, and the run.
An original world your audience buys a ticket to enter, walk through, and play.
Escape games, walk-throughs, festival attractions. We invent the story, design the space, build it, and run it, from the first sketch to opening night. You get a finished, working attraction, ready for guests.
A branded space your customers step inside, instead of scroll past.
For a product launch, a retail moment, or a public event. We turn your brief into a place people can touch, photograph, and remember. Concept, design, build, install, on site and on time.
The sets and worlds built behind the camera.
For film, TV, live shows, and exhibitions. Set design, art direction, lighting, and sound, built and dressed on location. Credits across Netflix and regional MENA broadcasters.
Sorted by the kind of world it is. Choose a sector to see only that craft, or let your cursor wander. Each world lights as you near it. Click through for the treatment, the build, and the night it opened.
Each world is designed to be re-staged, adapted to a new location, recast to its geography, and produced in partnership with venues, festivals, brands, investors, and tourism boards.
We deploy finished worlds across the Levant and the Gulf, through licensing, co-production, or full re-staging. From a Saudi heritage site to a Dubai venue, a Lebanese hospitality concept to a regional festival.
The catalogue is private. To explore which world belongs in your space, write to us.
For Investors · Venue operators · Festival directors · Tourism boards · Family entertainment groups
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Production design for film, TV, broadcast, live events, and immersive installations. Sets and worlds built across projects. Credits across Netflix and regional broadcasters in the MENA region.
The Bride's Doom, ranked #47 in the Top 100 Escape Rooms in the World.
Escape The Roomz · Top 100, 2019 · Beirut
We design for a set guest flow per hour, tuned to your venue and your audience's pace, not the other way around.
Concept, treatment, scenography, build, install, run-of-show, then strike. You see the world before a single wall goes up.
Yes. The build scales to its setting: a Beirut warehouse, a Riyadh activation site, a Dubai pavilion, a Norwegian forest. The discipline stays the same.
Every story is written into its place. English and Arabic, local crew, local nuance, a script that earns the room it walks into.
Tell us the story you want people to walk into. A sentence, a script, a sketch, a song, whatever it's closest to right now.
Every world begins with a conversation.
كل عالمٍ يبدأ بحكاية.
Begin a projectA story. A space. A world.
حكاية. مكان. عالَم.