Aishah Muhammad Yassin remembers her frazzled mother giving her a smartphone and putting on ‘Upin & Ipin’, a popular Malaysian animated series for children, for her to watch. “At that time (in 2018), I was a naughty kid,” said Aishah, now 15, laughing. Her mother, busy with housework, was relieved when little Aishah became entranced by the antics of the five-year-old twins Upin and Ipin, who live with their sister and grandmother, and friends from various backgrounds and ethnicities in the fictional village of Kampung Durian Runtuh. Aishah’s love for ‘Upin & Ipin’ continued into school, where she and her friends would watch the show on television at the refugee school Pelangi Kasih Learning Centre in Selayang Baru, Selangor, during free periods and while waiting for her mother to pick her up. Other than Rohingya like Aishah, the school served Myanmar Muslims and other refugee and stateless children.