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Waleed Zuaiter’s FlipNarrative Adapting Shannon Chakraborty’s Novel ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’ for TV (EXCLUSIVE)
Shannon Chakraborty's swashbuckling novel about a female Muslim pirate in 12th century Asia is being adapted for TV.
Production banner FlipNarrative, set up by Waleed Zuaiter — the BAFTA-nominated star of “Baghdad Central” and “Gangs of London” and Oscar-nominated producer of “Omar” — has optioned the rights to Shannon Chakraborty’s latest novel “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,” with plans to develop it into a multi-season series and gaming platform. The book — the first in a trilogy being published by Harper Voyager — is a swashbuckling high seas adventure following a notorious Muslim pirate captain who has survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands and an actual demon before retiring to a life of piety. “With ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi,’ we are given a rare insight into the melting pot that is the 12th century Indian Ocean,” said Zuaiter, who founded FlipNarrative alongside his wife Joanne Zuiter, with the two later joined by development executive Sean-Dean Thomas.
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