In this photograph taken on July 2, 2017, Afghan puppeteers dress Sesame Street Muppets ‘Zeerak’ (2L) and ‘Zari’ ahead of recording at a television studio in Kabul. The Afghan creators of Zeerak, a ...

Sesame Street has created new Rohingya muppets. The muppets, twins named Noor and Aziz, are a part of Sesame Street's new early education program for refugee children in a Rohingya refugee camp in ...

Sesame Street is introducing two new Muppet characters as part of a humanitarian program. The characters, Noor and Aziz, are refugees and will be the program’s first Rohingya-language educational ...

Celebrated, Mississippi-born puppeteer Jim Henson died in 1990, but his name is still alive through the Muppets.

There’s a new Muppet in town on “Sesame Street,” and he’s promoting gender equity. His name is Zeerak, he’s 4, and he is the younger brother of Zari, Sesame Street’s first Afghan Muppet. Both ...