Laughing at Culture Clash

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 5, 2016

Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the sitcom "Little Mosque on the Prairie" for Canadian television and the author of Laughing All the Way to the Mosque (Virago, 2016), talks about her new memoir and her long-running sitcom that featured a Muslim family.

What's off-limits in her comedy? God and disciplines of god, says Nawaz. But people are fair game!

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