A Palestinian TV network is about to launch the first Arab Sesame Street. It is an educational programme for children based on a series of puppets. It has spread across the world, and I think it is relatively culturally unspecific – although it did emerge in the US.
The programme spawned the Muppet Show, a hugely popular evening comedy show presented by the puppets, in the 1970s.
Now, Sesame Street is getting its first Arab Muppet.
Its first?
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1 Anonymous // May 20, 2007 at 2.53 pm
How about a much better idea as its first puppet, or should I say muppet, your own president
THE BUTCHER OF DAMASCUS.
What a much better choice that would be.
Actually better still, he can play himself on the show….
2 Wassim // May 20, 2007 at 5.22 pm
Didn’t we have Iftah ya Simsim in the eighties? I do recall that was very similar to Sesame street, who could forget Anis wa Badr?
3 sasa // May 20, 2007 at 5.25 pm
Iftah ya Simsim sounds very very familiar! Any links W? I’ll have a look too.
4 sasa // May 20, 2007 at 5.31 pm
And here it is. The first Arab Sesame Street was in the 1970s, produced in the Gulf. Thanks Wassim.
I think this may be the first Palestinian Sesame Street.
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