![]() ![]() ![]() “I have an incredible talent for bungling everything I do,” she says. Things often end up going sideways, as she says. Why we love it: Zarqa’s knack of finding the funny in serious situations will have you laughing out loud. She parlays a knack for writing into a career in television and film, and auditions a man she’s had her eye on for the role of husband. At school, she’s stuck eating stinky curry-chicken drumsticks, while everyone else’s lunches “smell like vanilla.” At home, she sneaks about trying to shave when it’s considered “forbidden to change God’s creation.” After Zarqa is rejected by medical school, her mother decides she must marry - “One eye, two eyes, what does it matter, as long as he has a good job?” she says. What it’s about: Beginning with her childhood, Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the TV show Little Mosque on the Prairie, struggles with awkward situations related to being Muslim in Canada. ![]()
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