Zarqa Nawaz on her career and making fun of ISIS in her new book Jameela Green Ruins Everything.

This week, Angela talks to documentarian, writer, and comedian Zarqa Nawaz, whose new book, Jameela Green Ruins Everything, is out now. Angie and Zarqa talk about Zarqa's career, including her documentary Me and The Mosque, her TV show Little Mosque on the Prarie, and how years writing pilots in Hollywood lead her to write a memoir. They also talk about how to make fun of ISIS. Zarqa talks about textbooks created by America to radicalize children in Afghanistan. Here's the Washington post article about that story. We'll be back in two weeks with Elizabeth Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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