I Worked on the “Arab Sesame Street.” It Was Not a Waste of Money.

I Worked on the “Arab Sesame Street.” It Was Not a Waste of Money.

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 have argued since, that Palestinians under years of occupation prefer an amicable divorce from the Israelis rather than an equal marriage without equal rights.With funding from the Ford Foundation and other philanthropy…
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