Zarqa Nawaz is best known for creating the Canadian sitcom “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and now has a new memoir out called “Laughing All The Way to the Mosque.”
She talks to NPR about the importance of humor in helping people understand different ethnicities and cultures. “I think [that when] you make a joke about something, it somehow lets people let down their guard and absorb something that they wouldn’t normally be willing to accept and say, ‘Maybe I’ve been wrong about my preconceived notions about this one group of people, maybe they are similar to us.’… And what surprised me the most about making the show and writing this book was when people [said], ‘That’s my world, too.’”
