“Unafraid to push buttons with a feisty, feminist twist, Nawaz cites Nora Efron as her writing spirit guide.”

Sarah Berman | The Tyee

Zarqa’s book about her life is an intimate and hilarious look into growing up as a Canadian Muslim.

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, is a new book written by the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Zarqa Nawaz tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society.

“It’s astonishing how well Zarqa barrels forward with her beliefs with unabashed conviction—and a good dose of humour.”

Jill Buchner | Canadian Living

 

Laughing All The Way To The Mosque

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.

Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Zarqa’s own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. 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.

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.

Reviews

“Zarqa Nawaz is one very Funny Lady, the Sultana of the Sardonic, maybe even the Imamma of the Ironic.”

Robert Collison | Toronto Star

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