Sunday, June 24, 2018

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - July 19, 2018, 7 p.m.


 Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - July 19, 2018, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Claire and Murray's house - 3915 Cliffside Drive

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque

Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will "pimp out" her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. 

Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society. From explaining to the plumber why the toilet must be within sitting arm's reach of the water tap (hint: it involves a watering can and a Muslim obsession with cleanliness "down there") to urging the electrician to place an eye-height electrical socket for her father-in-law's epilepsy-inducing light-up picture of the Kaaba, Zarqa paints a hilarious portrait of growing up in a household where, according to her father, the Quran says it's okay to eat at McDonald's-but only if you order the McFish.


Books are available to group members in the BUF Work Room.  Please write your name and phone number in the log book when checking out a book and cross it out when returned.

Sunday, June 17, 2018

6/21 Book Choosing Potluck at 6:00pm

We'll be having our book-choosing potluck on Thursday June 21st. Remember to bring a dish to share, and 2 book titles that you can recommend for the coming year. You need to have read the books, and preferably have a copy of each to bring with you.

WHERE: Claire and Murray's house - 3915 Cliffside Drive.

Dec. 15, 2022. 7:00PM.

Next Thursday the 15th, we'll share ideas about Michael Christie's  Greenwood , a magnificent family saga covering many years. Chris...