Iftah Ya Simsim is the Arabic co-production of Sesame Street. The series debuted at Kuwait in the fall of 1979, and was the first Sesame co-production in Arabic. There were 130 half-hour episodes produced and broadcast on a weekday basis in various Arabic countries, before it returned to TV in 2015. __TOC__ The original show featured Nu'man, a full-body camel, Malsun, the (originally yellow-green) parrot, Yaqut, a female lavender monster with colorful bumps on her head and a long nose, and Abla, a full-body cat. For the show's 2015 revival, Yaqut and Abla were dropped, and yellow monster girl Shams was introduced, along with Gargour (Grover) and several Anything Muppets, camels, cows, chickens, penguins and other birds that serve as side-characters.