Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz

And it’s also about her lack of dating, marriage and burying the dead. The show demystified Islam for millions of people around the world by explaining how practicing Muslim live their lives from dating to marriage to burying their dead.Īnd now Zarqa Nawaz has written her best-selling comedic memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, about growing up as a Canadian of Muslim faith. It finished airing it’s 91th episode in 2012 after completing 6 seasons and is now being broadcast to over 60 countries. Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered to record ratings on the CBC in 2007. Zarqa Nawaz created the world’s first sitcom about a Muslim community living in the west. From explaining to the plumber why the toilet must be within sitting arm's reach of the water tap (hint: it involves a watering can and a Muslim obsession with cleanliness 'down there') to urging the electrician to place an eye-height electrical socket for her father-in-law's epilepsy-inducing light-up picture of the Kaaba, Zarqa paints a hilarious portrait of growing up in a household where, according to her father, the Quran says it's okay to eat at McDonald's-but only if you order the McFish. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society. Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will 'pimp out' her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures.

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz