Sesame Street, Palestine: The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children’s Program (audiobook)

This is an audiobook download. You will receive a zip file of mp3s upon purchase.    Sesame Street, Palestine: The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children’s ProgramBy  Daoud KuttabRead by Nat Segaloff 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 coproduction 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