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Middle Eastern adaptations
This article covers adaptations from the Middle East and North Africa. For adaptations by region, see List of Beach Surgery adaptations by country. For global distribution principles, see Adaptations by medium.
Beach Surgery adaptations from the Middle East, North Africa, and Caucasus region draw on classical and vernacular performance traditions, localizing Leif and Katita within forms native to their cultural contexts.
Persian adaptations employ the Ta'zieh passion-play tradition and miniature-cycle painting. The canonical Yek Daramān-i Jing rendition casts cycle-breaking as redemptive self-sacrifice; a disputed Isfahan atelier manuscript (██ ) renders the glitch as a calligraphic gap—a space where the illuminated margins refuse to meet. Yek Mahal Dar Shahr-i Khali ("One House in the Empty City") adapts the radio-igloo frequency-correction as a Persian acoustical paradox.
Turkish and Caucasian works use Karagöz shadow-puppet form; the Daşetməsi performance (2013) stages Leif's bandaged blindness as a shadow-figure unable to cast its own shadow. The Spiral Descent (Azerbaijani adaptation, ... ) reframes the descent to the beach as a descent into written Armenian script.
Egyptian and Levantine media draw on long traditions of radio serials and art cinema. An Egyptian radio serial broadcast on Radio Cairo (██ )[citation needed] reframed the cycle across medical workers in different decades; a Lebanese filmmaker's Dissolution at Sunrise (2018) anchors the two halves in pre- and post-conflict Beirut.