Samira Ahmed is the first female South Asian writer to tackle Marvel's premier Muslim superhero in a comic series. She plays Kamala Khan, the Muslim American superhero known as Ms Marvel, is already a big part of author Samira Ahmed's life. The author told Entertainment Weekly that her “group chat with her South Asian cousins routinely employs the acronym WWMMD: What would Ms Marvel do?”
"A lot of it will be about food because we can all relate to Kamala on that level," Ahmed told EW. Ms Marvel comics have only been written by Muslim writers so far - first Wilson, and then Saladin Ahmed starting in 2019. But Samira Ahmed will be the first South Asian female writer to write a Ms Marvel series, and so feels a particular connection to what Kamala represents. "For kids of colour, Muslim kids, there was literally zero representation when I was growing up," Ahmed said.
