Al-Sabah's work aims to convey visions of war, resistance, and perseverance. He utilises a multi-media installation comprising of video, painting, sculpture, and printed matter.
The work references Arabic-dubbed, Japanese, anime series, which were broadcast across the middle-east from the 1980's onwards, and uses these images to explore the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and how the past is continually revised to meet the present when the juvenile fantasy breaks down into the reality of adulthood.
Tackling themes of revolution, war, and exile, the work projects political meaning onto these cartoons, which have been connected with a cross-generational identity, shared by now-adult Arabs. These works draw attention to an underrepresented topic in global media: the influence, effects, and agendas of Japanese anime on Arab, popular culture.
Displacement, nostalgia, and personal mythology play a significant role within his work as it tries to capture a recollection that is not fixed, but rather a version of history that is the result of blurring false and true narratives that have collapsed into each other causing the sensation of falsified memory and trauma. To achieve this he has been drawing on the collection of scenes of war and destruction from children’s animations and deconstructing the parallels between fantasy and reality, the hero and the every day, the make-believe and fact.