An immersive storytelling studio

Stories that take place.

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.

I · What we make

Four doors. One studio.

We design experiences people walk into, and build them from idea to end. You bring the place, or the brief. We handle the story, the space, the build, and the run.

A theater set with film reels, production design by Maze of Tales
IV

Design for Film & Broadcast

The sets and worlds built behind the camera, dressed on location.

For: directors · producers · broadcasters.

II · Selected work

A small library of worlds.

Choose a craft, or let your cursor wander. Each world lights as you near it.

Heritage · Zee Ain Village, Al Baha

A Leap in Time

Festival · Brand Activation

Amazon: Hero's Gate

Escape Game

Völva

Escape Game

The Heist Across the Street

Top 100 in the World · 2019
Escape Game

The Bride's Doom

Festival

Tales of Sun & Moon

Escape Game · Festival

Nucleus

Heritage · Pop-up

The Knights of Malta

Escape Game · Pop-up

Steampunk Voyage

Pop-up Experience

Tales of the Fellowship

Smarties Gold · 2023
Brand Activation

Panadol: Art of Release

Smarties Bronze · 2025
Brand Activation

Sensodyne Cafe

Clio Bronze · 2026
Brand Activation

Centrum

Brand Activation

The 5th Sense

Brand Activation

Taste of Dubai

III · How to work with us

Four ways in.

Every project begins with one conversation. Tell us the place, the brand, or the story, and we tell you which of these fits.

I

Commission a new world.

You bring the place, the brand, or the brief. We write the story, design the space, build it, and run it. From the first sketch to opening night.

Seasons · festivals · heritage bodies · brands
II

License a finished world.

A tested world as a turnkey package. Narrative, blueprint, run-of-show, manual. You build and run it.

Venue operators · entertainment groups
III

Co-produce a world.

We stay your creative and production partner across the run. We co-build, co-cast, co-run.

Festivals · venues · brand partners
IV

Re-stage a world for your city.

We rewrite a finished world for your venue and your audience. Same backbone, new geography, local crew.

Tourism boards · hospitality · heritage sites

The catalogue of finished worlds is private. Write to us and we will tell you which one fits.

V · The Reel

From set to screen.

Production design for film, TV, broadcast and live events. Credits across Netflix and the region’s broadcasters.

Netflix · 2024Love Is Blind: Habibi
Broadcast · MBCIraq Idol
Broadcast · KSASaudi Star
Stage DesignPop Art
Set DesignThe Boat
Set DesignTheater
IV · The storytellers

Two storytellers who built worlds instead.

Carla Kamel and Karim Khneisser, the founders of Maze of Tales
Carla Kamel & Karim Khneisser · Founders

Two storytellers 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.

From their first builds in Beirut to the Gulf and the Kingdom, every project starts the same way. A story written into its space before a single wall goes up.

Working across
Lebanon · UAE · Saudi Arabia · France.And wherever your story lives. We've built as far as Malta and Norway.
Languages
Arabic · English · French.
One craft
Experience design and events.
VI · What you might wonder

Curiosity, answered.

How many guests can it hold?

We design for a set guest flow per hour, tuned to your venue and your audience's pace, not the other way around.

How does a project run?

Concept, treatment, scenography, build, install, run-of-show, then strike. You see the world before a single wall goes up.

Can it travel to my city?

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.

Will it land with my audience?

Every story is written into its place. English and Arabic, local crew, local nuance, a script that earns the room it walks into.

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If you have a story to build.

Tell us the story you want people to walk into. A sentence, a script, a sketch, a song, whatever form it takes right now.

Wherever your story lives
Lebanon · UAE · Saudi Arabia · France

Every world begins with a conversation.

كل عالمٍ يبدأ بحكاية.

Begin a project

A story. A space. A world.

حكاية. مكان. عالَم.