When I was approached in 1994 by Lewis Bernstein of the Children’s Television Workshop to participate in a joint Israeli-Palestinian production of Sesame Street, I was reluctant. I argued then, as I ...

Sunny days are sweeping the clouds away in the Middle East — with the help of a few furry neighbors. Even as it emerges that Hamas has been using a Mickey Mouse lookalike to indoctrinate young ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters Life!) - 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 all day long. The ...

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 ...