Iftah Ya Simsim
The show focused on Arab heritage, like the wedding rituals of countries in the region, and included Arab poems and songs. "Iftah Ya Simsim" premiered in Kuwait in September 1979, and was broadcast in all Arabic-speaking countries excluding Egypt. The show's opening consisted of a catchy tune that became beloved of its young viewers. As the song played, the opening footage showed children across the Arab world running past familiar landmarks like the Pyramids and playing in playgrounds and ancient alleyways before running into a white fort that had its gates open wide. The show's set consisted of an intricately traditional Arabian neighborhood called "Sharee Eshreen" (20th Street).
Simsir
Simsir was a principality in Central Eastern Chechnya in the Middle Ages, existing in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It was located roughly in Eastern Chechnya (Ichkeria, roughly where the modern districts of Gudermes and Nozhay-Yurt lie today, around the Sunzha and Terek rivers. Its name may have been derived from the Chechen town of Simsir. It was a rather small state; the southern parts of Chechnya and Ingushetia were ruled by Durdzuketia, while the northwestern parts of the Vainakh area belonged to Alania. Simsir originally also had lands in Southeast Chechnya, but over the course of its existence, it became more and more focused on the Sunzha river as the core of its statehood. Its society had a feudal hierarchical social structure, and in its later years it allied itself with the Golden Horde before it was destroyed in 1390 by Timurlane, with that conquest of Timurlane written about in the Zafarnama by Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi.