Missing Basma

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Detailed Goal: Managing Loneliness

Full Episode: Missing Basma, Season 1 - Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Iraqi), Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Full Episodes include the Narrative and Variety formats.

Full Episode: Ahlan Simsim Playdate: Missing Basma, Season 2 - Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Iraqi), Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Full Episodes include the Narrative and Variety formats.

Narrative: Missing Basma, Season 1
When Basma goes to her one-on-one singing class with Gargur (Grover), Jad feels intense separation anxiety. To avoid feeling lonely, he tries to keep busy and even to play soccer with Ma’zooza, but nothing works. Abu’l Fihem encourages Jad to express his feelings through drawing...and he ends up painting a mural of himself with Basma.

Narrative: Missing Basma (Zoom Style), Season 2
When Basma goes to her one-on-one singing class with Gargur (Grover), Jad feels intense separation anxiety. To avoid feeling lonely, he tries to keep busy and even to play soccer with Ma’zooza, but nothing works. Abu’l Fihem encourages Jad to express his feelings through drawing...and he ends up painting a mural of himself with Basma.

Variety: Missing Basma, Season 1
Variety show with kids and celebrities that reinforces the emotion term and self-regulation strategy from the episode.

Mural Animation: Missing Basma, Season 1
Abu’l Fihem feels lonely without his friends.

Short form: Elmo's 30 Second Recap: Missing Basma, 1:22, Season 1
Elmo provides recap of the Narrative Format’s story and the Loneliness emotion with the Count to Five, Move It Out & Draw it Out strategies.

Short form: Missing Basma - Gargur (Grover) Interview with Kids – Loneliness (#3), Season 1
Ahlan Simsim's furry pal and star reporter Gargur (Grover) talks to kids about loneliness.

Song: Missing Basma/Draw it Out (Zoom style), Season 2
Sketch it, hatch it, color it, match it...it doesn't matter what you draw, just as long as you do!