Speaker Zarqa Nawaz
Zarqa Nawaz
In 2007, Zarqa created the internationally renowned CBC comedy series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, the world’s first sitcom about a Muslim community living in the west. The show premiered to the highest ratings CBC had in over 20 years and won a Gemini.
In 2014, she published her comedic memoir, Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, which was a Globe & Mail bestseller as well as being short listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. In 2022, she published her first novel, Jameela Green Ruins Everything and created a self-titled web series, ZARQA which is streaming on CBC Gem.
Speaking on: Banff World Media Festival
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