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Sesame Street, Palestine

The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children's Program

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Sesame Street, Palestine

Written by: Daoud Kuttab
Narrated by: Nat Segaloff
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Big Birds are rare in Palestine.

After a surprise phone call from Children’s Television Workshop, Daoud Kuttab took the chance of a lifetime to create a Palestinian co-production of Sesame Street. But the challenges of producing a world-famous children’s program quickly escalated beyond just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic.

From finding actors and puppeteers in a country starved of training to dealing with a community that considered the production too provocative, the early days were less than easy. Animating hand puppets against a backdrop of the turbulent Palestinian-Israeli peace process drew him into exciting, tense times that made Cookie Monster’s search for sweets seem like child’s play. Days after the first episode aired, Daoud was arrested.

Journey into Kuttab’s unusual world, where the signing of the Oslo Accords, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Hollywood star Richard Gere, and the King of Jordan played important roles. Not even Kermit could have imagined this unique, exciting, and undeniably fascinating expansion of America’s most enduring children’s show into a new world bound by the West Bank desert, politics, media, and money.

©2017 by Daoud Kuttab (P)2018 by BearManor Media, Inc. Biographies & Memoirs Film & TV Israeli-Palestinian conflict King Royalty
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Brilliant

I admire the creators of Sesame Street the great deal. That much more when I see the lengths they will go to for the younger generations. This was a very moving account of people working tirelessly to provide a beautiful and safe for world for toddlers and kids. the writing was clear and concise for the most part and a lot was packed into this relatively short recording. it all helped me better understand the conflict over there.

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