I did, however, do a little research on the program, finding a multitude of interviews with its creator, Zarqa Nawaz. The Globe and Mail, cbc.ca, and USA Today indicate the show is inspired by Nawaz’s experiences living as a Canadian Muslim in Toronto and Regina.

Nawaz calls herself a Muslim feminist and, as such, sets out to challenge stereotypical beliefs about Muslim women and the men they marry, not only among Westerners, but also within her own faith.

I had to have my husband’s permission to teach there. The girls had to have their husbands’ or fathers’ permission to leave the grounds for lunch.

We Westerners had to sneak our weaknesses in. I recall a girlfriend returning from a summer spent in Ontario, secretly armed with a box set of Sex and the City. There was a line up to borrow it.

Websites were guarded, magazine cleavages blacked out, books banned, but in a world driven by dreams and endless technology, the quest to censor information and dull the desire to be heard, is ultimately futile.

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