Ameera, the latest Muppet character from the team at Sesame Workshop, will soon make her debut on the new season of 'Ahlan Simsim,' the version of 'Sesame Street' that airs in the Middle East and North Africa.
Ameera, the latest Muppet character from the team at Sesame Workshop, will soon make her debut on the new season of "Ahlan Simsim," the version of "Sesame Street" that airs in the Middle East and North Africa.
Ameera also happens to use a wheelchair or forearm crutches because of a spinal cord injury. That small detail is meant to acknowledge the estimated 12 million people with disabilities around the world who have been forcibly displaced. The hope, the Sesame Workshop team says, is that children with physical disabilities will see themselves in Ameera, and that able-bodied children will see Ameera as not so different from them after all.
The team also hopes that children will see themselves parts of themselves in Ameera's exuberant personality. "Ahlan Simsim," Arabic for "Welcome Sesame," premiered in 2020. It was originally created to help children who were facing trauma and displacement from the Syrian war process their emotions, and past seasons have focused on developing problem-solving and conflict resolution skills, Cameron said. This season's focus is on kindness.
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