Based in the US, Fictional Frontiers’ CEO Sohaib Awan, Director of Jabal Entertainment, has decades of experience in the creative media industries. Guided by his expertise, our Initiative creates opportunities for new storytellers. We work with creators from different countries and cultures, each with their own languages, unique artforms, and narrative styles - collections and compendiums of stories brought forward for discovery by new audiences.
A “transmedia” approach: there are many mediums of storytelling and to each is their own style of learning, chosen genre, or art. We accommodate audiences whether they prefer fiction or non-fiction, novels, short stories, comics and manga, film or interaction and conversation.
While Fictional Frontiers aims to cater to a wide audience of all backgrounds, we have a particular interest in stories from and inspired by the Muslim world, its cultures, and philosophies. The approach takes its lead from traditional arts of storytelling. Different communities of Muslim peoples historically delved into varied creative arts: stories and teaching tales, a myriad of artistic styles, songs, music, plays and theatre.
There is symbolism, mystery, and deep meaning in the great works of Islamic art. The spirit of the emotion it was designed to nurture on a grand scale reaches each individual in many small and beautiful ways. Fictional Frontiers holds the cultivation of true beauty at its heart.