Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was approached in 1994 by Lewis Bernstein of the Children’s Television Workshop to participate in a joint ...
During the 1990s, a joint Israeli-Palestinian version of Sesame Street aired for a few years in Israel and the Palestinian territories. One of the goals of the show was to build understanding of each ...
JERUSALEM — Haneen is an orange Palestinian Muppet with a mop of pink hair. She lives on “Shara’a Simsim.” Dafi, purple with blue pigtails and a bright yellow nose, is an Israeli Muppet from “Rehov ...
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK — It’s always a sunny day on Sesame Street in the West Bank, where the neighbors are friendly and the muppets never see an Israeli army checkpoint. “Shara’a Simsim” teaches ...