Canadian Muslims - Media

Media

  • Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC Television created by Zarqa Nawaz. The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).
  • Zarqa Nawaz, with the National Film Board, has produced Me and the Mosque (2005) a documentary about the role of women in Islam, both throughout history and in contemporary Canada, told from a personal perspective.
  • Adam's World, the popular TV series for Muslim children produced by Abdul Malik Mujahid for Sound Vision is filmed in Toronto. Two of its three directors and editors are Canadians.



by Susan Hogan Albach

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