Grandmas play stealth superheroes in a new United Arab Emirates comedy show, showing a welcome new side of the Arab world that may (I hope) soon make it to American TV.

The new animated TV series “Freej” stars a group of older women who do daring heroic acts, hiding their identities behind masks that are much more relevant than your standard superhero masks — they’re the veils that many Muslim women wear everyday.

Series creator Mohammed Saeed Harib discussed the need for these cool ladies in a New York Times article:

“We don’t come from a land that has a lot of role models, except for C.E.O.’s and sheiks,” he said in an interview at his loft studio near the man-made island called Palm Jumeirah… If “animation exports the cultural values of the nation,” as Mr. Harib put it, then he said he wanted “Freej” to continue to represent his native Gulf state (Dubai), even abroad.

You go, Grandmas!

Filed under: Age, Arab/Persian American, Middle East, TV by Marc Breindel