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Canada's Little Mosque on the Prairie TV Producer to Campus

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Published: Friday, 18 Mar 2016 Author: Kathryn Marie Malkowski

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.  In 2005, she made a ground-breaking documentary named "Me and the Mosque," for the National Film Board of Canada about Muslim women's battle with patriarchy int he msoque.  This ultimately inspired the television series, "Little Mosque on the Prairie," which aired for 6 seasons on (CBDC) 2007-2012 and cans till be viewed on YouTube.

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