As kids, if we weren’t busy playing outside, we were glued to the TV screen watching one cartoon after the other.

But it was never Arabic cartoons that dominated our TV-watching time; Japanese and American cartoons were the top winners.

Dubbed into Arabic, kids in the Middle East quickly got hooked and fell in love with those cartoon characters.

Jordanian-Palestinian architect-turned-artist Nahar Bahij has decided to have some fun by reimagining what some of those characters would look like if they were Arab.

The results were as kick-ass as The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ martial art skills.

The Simpsons

Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street

The Smurfs

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

Popeye

Family Guy

Lego