her documentary Me and the Mosque. She felt that mosques would be run differently if imams were recruited from North America instead of being brought from overseas where cultural differences, especially when it came to women, affected how the imams behaved with their congregation. After the success of Little Mosque on the Prairie, Nawaz successfully sold comedy pilots to ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox Studios. Nawaz's memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, published in 2014, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Stephen Leacock Award. The book was also nominated for the Kobo Emerging Writer's Award, Saskatchewan Book Award of the Year, and Chatelaine magazine's Book Club Pick. "With a light touch and great humour," wrote reviewer Joanne Latimer in Maclean's magazine, "she pokes fun at Muslims and her Punjabi-Canadian clan. The anecdotes create a wry portrait of an immigrant daughter struggling against tradition, sexism and the shalwar kameez." Nawaz was also as an advice columnist for the Globe & Mail from February 2012 to August 2012. In 2018, she was the host of The Morning Edition, Saskatchewan's CBC Radio's morning show, and in 2019 she was the anchor of CBC Saskatchewan's six o'clock news. Nawaz received a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Saskatchewan for her interfaith work in the community. In recognition for her contribution to the arts, she was inducted into Brampton Arts Walk of Fame in 2019. Nawaz started doing stand-up in 2020 and co-created the first Women and Non-Binary Open Mic in Regina where she headlined on opening night at The Cure. Prior to the COVID outbreak in March 2020, Nawaz did weekly open mics at The Cure, and monthly open mics at The Exchange, The Fat Badger, the Creative City Centre and The Social LOL in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2021, CBC Television announced the production of Zarqa, a web series in which Nawaz stars as a divorced Muslim woman reentering the dating scene. The series premiered on CBC Gem in May 2022. Nawaz's novel Jameela Green Ruins Everything is also slated for publication in 2022. Zarqa Nawaz is the mother of four children and lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. Short films BBQ Muslims (1995) – Two Muslim brothers are accused of terrorism after their barbecue explodes in their backyard. Death Threat (1998) – A young Muslim novelist claims to have received a death threat in order to get her book published. Random