Shankaboot looks at the daily life of Sleimane, a young deliveryman who zips through the streets of Beirut on his scooter to deliver medicines, bottles of gas and food to the city’s residents. The stories of several other characters revolve around him, including those of Roueida, a young woman with whom he falls in love, and Chadi, an enigmatic character who is somehow responsible for allowing Sleimane to work.
Being a Web series, Shankaboot was freed from the usual limitations applied to TV programs but had to conform to the formatting needs of the Internet. With its dynamic editing, realistic settings, engaging music and use of regional, idiomatic Lebanese-Arabic, the result is a story that young Lebanese can identify with – one that is a world away from the usual locally produced or imported series that use more formal, literary Arabic.
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