Journalism School and Zarqa Nawaz

Zarqa Nawaz: The conversation with Nawaz has been edited for length, according to The Star. Why was it necessary to put this in your foreword and Zarqa Nawaz went to journalism school and then realized that telling factual stories really wasnt her thing. She wanted to have fun and so she began writing comedy, first for films and then with a lauded television series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, which aired on CBC until 2012 . Nawaz has just finished a memoir, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque , which is as hilarious as her television show. It is so funny I had to share bits of the book with friends and my husband. She shows us Muslims are just like everyone else, funny and often carefree. You offer an apology to your Muslim readers at the beginning of your book: . . . dont think I ve forgotten you. First, stop sulking. This book could have had confessions about drug problems, strange sexual fetishes and criminal activity basically the stuff of white-people memoirs . . . There are no confessions of having sex while swinging from a chandelier . . . So you dont have to be scared of this book. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.