Producer
Fundamentalist Films

Zarqa Nawaz is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and broadcaster best known for creating Little Mosque on the Prairie, the groundbreaking CBC sitcom about a Muslim community in the West, which premiered to record ratings and won a Gemini Award. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque (2014) and the novel Jameela Green Ruins Everything (2022), both shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Zarqa is also the creator and star of the CBC Gem series ZARQA. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with her family.