Zarqa Nawaz has worked as a freelance writer/broadcaster with CBC Radio, and in various capacities with CBC Newsworld, CTV's Canada AM, and CBC's The National. Her first short film BBQ Muslims, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1996. In 2005, her documentary entitled Me and the Mosque, a co-production with the National Film Board and the CBC, was broadcast on CBC's Rough Cuts. A practicing Muslim and mother of four, Zarqa grew up going to a mosque. When she moved to Regina ten years ago, she joined a smaller congregation where the relationships between the congregants were more intimate then in the big city. This became the inspiration for Little Mosque on the Prairie. |
