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| - The characters lived on separate streets, but in a controversial move, occasionally met by crossing over on friendly visits. Seventy episodes were produced, before a new co-production with the Palestinian Authority (PA) began in 2002. Now called Sesame Stories and produced by Al Quds University’s Institute of Modern Media, and based on reflections that promoting friendship between Muppet characters and humans from the warring nations was too much to ask, the current series keeps the characters confined to individual separate co-productions, with different Muppets for each nation/entity (the PA, Israel, and Jordan). Kareem and Haneen were kept by Palestine, but the Israeli Muppets have been replaced by Noah and Brosh. In 2007, an independent Shara'a Simsim series debuted.
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