Suleiman Bakhit’s dream of becoming the Walt Disney of the Arab world began in a Minnesota classroom full of American first-grade students.

The young Jordanian student (pictured below) was there in January 2002 to talk about Arabs and Muslims. He wanted to explain to these children that the men behind the attacks on New York and Washington four months earlier were a radical fringe, that their atrocities should not stoke fears of the wider Arab world. We, Mr Bakhit was trying to say, are not so different from you.