About

Zarqa Nawaz is the creator of the hit Canadian television show Little Mosque on the Prairie. She has written her memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque (2016) where she details her journey from a medical school reject to creating the first television show about Muslims living in the West. In her NFB documentary, Me and the Mosque, Nawaz visits mosques throughout Canada and talks to scholars, colleagues, friends and neighbours about equal access for women. Nawaz is an alumna of the WIDC 2003 program in Banff.