Being a Muslim in America, I've noticed that there's a ton of crossover between the Muslim community and geekdom.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.
So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'
I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
'Lost' makes a lot of sense to me, philosophically.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
