Zari, New Female Puppet, Joins Afghan Sesame Street

There’s a new face on Sesame Street — a sassy, fun 6-year-old Afghan puppet girl called Zari, with purple skin, an orange nose and multi-colored hair, an infectious giggle and outfits to please Afghanistan’s broad kaleidoscope of ethnicities and cultures.

Zari will wear a headscarf with her school uniform, which unlike that for girls across Afghanistan will not be black — Sesame Street characters do not wear black — but pale blue. Otherwise the eternal pre-teen will be mostly bare-headed.

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