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Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman
Zarqa Nawaz
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Description for Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman
Paperback. A brilliantly funny memoir about what it's really like to be Muslim in Western society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Being a practicing Muslim in the West is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never falls on the same date each year; why it is that Halal butchers also sell teapots and alarm clocks; how do you make clear to the plumber that it's essential the toilet is installed within sitting-arm's reach of the tap?
Zarqa Nawaz has seen and done it all.
And it's not always easy to get things right with the community either: Zarqa tells of being asked to leave the DBW (Dead ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349005935
SKU
V9780349005935
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99-50
About Zarqa Nawaz
Zarqa Nawaz created Little Mosque on the Prairie for Canadian television, and has spent much of the past six years writing comedy pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, and touring the world as a sought-after public speaker. She has been interviewed or profiled by CNN, the BBC, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. She lives in Regina with ... Read more
Reviews for Laughing All the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman
A sort of Muslim Miranda
Sunday Times
She's sarcastic and irreverent but warm-hearted, and her writing has something of the great Nora Ephron's about it - she's witty and quick, but never takes herself too seriously
Independent
Nawaz tells it like it is in this hilarious, frank and enlightening memoir about growing up Muslim. The bit ... Read more
Sunday Times
She's sarcastic and irreverent but warm-hearted, and her writing has something of the great Nora Ephron's about it - she's witty and quick, but never takes herself too seriously
Independent
Nawaz tells it like it is in this hilarious, frank and enlightening memoir about growing up Muslim. The bit ... Read more