 Some of Kabil's more notable films during this period include Chahine's "The Sparrow", "Love Under the Rain" (based on the Naguib Mahfouz novel), and "The Damned" (an adaptation of "King Lear").Kabil spent the last years of the 1970s attempting to have a short story he penned, "Sinai 73", turned into a full-length film.Based on his experience of capturing Israeli pilot Yair Barak in the Six-Day War in 1967, the film was ideally to be a joint American-Israeli-Egyptian production that would highlight the possibility of peace between Egypt and Israel.