Ameera, who is 8 years old in the world of Muppets, uses a wheelchair, and helps represent the millions of children with disabilities affected by conflict and displacement. Around the world, an ...

Dr. Chance Henderson, a Texas-born orthopedic surgeon, was there when the girl, whom NPR is calling Ameera, was brought to the hospital at the Bagram Airfield outside Kabul. "I remember her quite ...

Ameera will premiere on “Ahlan Simsim,” (”Welcome Sesame” in Arabic), the version of “Sesame Street” that airs in the Middle East and North Africa. Sesame Workshop said Ameera is “a ...