Arab Superheroes

This article is written by siham machkour.

Arab superheroes. Zahra the shadow flame a teenage girl living in united arabia with fire powers. Marvel i started thinking about all of the other middle eastern superheroes i ve seen introduced since 9 11. She battles misogyny with a sword fighitn abilities and quick and funny wit. Appears in a self titled series published by adam comics in 2018.

In an effort to combat the obvious prejudices in this country both marvel and dc have taken it upon themselves to diversify their superhero line ups with characters of middle eastern descent. Bromisnar arab superhero from chilean comic iman the adventures of iman a muslim girl hero who uses faith as the source of her power. Qahera is a veiled egyptian superhero in cairo. Denna mohamed creator of the comic was inspired by her rea life experienceces of sexual harassment and white savior ideologies that egyptian women experience everyday.

Through these characters silver scorpion shows that disabled people can come together and be something more. Launched in arabic and in english in 2011 silver scorpion features not only bashir bari but also other superheroes that are disabled or able bodied who come together to combat an evil force that threatens the world. Marvel enlists arab american superhero from dearborn marvel s universe of comic book superheroes is about to unleash a new character with a bright blue look and massive superpowers. In spite of this stereotyping in the entertainment industry arabs and muslims do exist in american comics as superheroes such as kamala khan who is a pakistani american superhero known as ms.

Marvel on his shoulders is marvel s newest superhero and one of the few arab american superheroes in comics.