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Publication details [#65621]

Sakr, Naomi. 2018. ‘Smarter, Stronger, Kinder’. Interests at Stake in the Remaking of Iftah ya Simsim for Gulf Children. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11 (1) : 9–28.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cooperation | culture | education | goal | pre-school age | television
Place, Publisher
Brill

Annotation

This study handles the concerns at stake in the remake of Iftah ya Simsim (IYS) (Open Sesame) for Gulf Children in 2015. The publicly declared aim of IYS' partner, Sesame Workshop in New York, is to bid fun classes that make Gulf children ‘smarter, kinder and stronger’.