Sesame Street, Palestine: Taking Sesame Street to the children of Palestine: Daoud Kuttab's personal story

Big Birds are rare in Palestine.

Daoud Kuttab knows. The ups and downs of producing a world-famous children's program quickly escalated into more than just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic like the new Palestinian characters, Kareem and Hanin. The executive producer of the Palestinian version of Sesame Street endured working under Israeli occupation, navigating through checkpoints and M15s, arrest, and personal tragedy. Animating hand puppets against a backdrop of the turbulent Palestinian-Isr...