Esquire Middle East provided the opportunity to speak a bit about Kismet, Man of Fate and the circumstances surrounding his 21st-century publication.

I brought Kismet to Boston as the city was struggling with an unrest reflected nationwide. The Boston Marathon Bombing was only a few years prior, and the ripple effects of Charlotteville’s “Unite the Right” rally was bringing further such demonstrations to my hometown. It felt very much like the right time to take this international character and land him in the middle of a familiar struggle. After all, Algeria had its own turmoil with French colonisation in the years following Kismet’s first publication, and having a Muslim character espouse the superheroic virtues of truth and justice against the MAGA tide struck me as a positive, progressive, and peaceful narrative for the time.

Esquire Middle East – https://www.esquireme.com/culture/kismet-the-first-muslim-superhero