The Amazing al-Mutawa
Educated at Tufts, he now is writing Islam-inspired comic books that give the Middle East - and the US - a surprising band of superheroes.
The hottest-selling comic book throughout much of the Middle East - other than Spiderman - is a series called The 99, featuring 99 superheroes whose powers are firmly rooted in the teachings of Islam. The comic book's creator, a 36-year-old Kuwaiti native named Naif al-Mutawa, spent 10 summers as a boy at Camp Robin Hood, a predominantly Jewish summer camp ... (Full article: 806 words)
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