Zaib Shaikh

Zaib Shaikh

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Zaib Shaikh is a Canadian actor who currently stars as Amaar, an imam in the CBC Television sitcom "Little Mosque on the Prairie". He previously appeared as Jayesh in "Metropia", an evening soap opera broadcast on Omni Television, and as Vancouver city councillor Shakil Khan in "Da Vinci's City Hall".

He was born in 1974 in Toronto at St. Michael's Hospital and is of Pakistani Muslim descent.Citation
last = Kaplan | first = Jon
title = Grains of Truth
newspaper = NOW | volume=22 | issue=31
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year = 2003 | date = April 3-9, 2003
url = http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-04-03/stage_theatrepreview.php] He attended jointly the University of Toronto at Mississauga and the Sheridan College Institute of Advanced Learning, where he studied theatre. While at the University of Toronto, he was a copy editor for the campus newspaper, "The Medium".

External links

* [http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1278 The Hour Interview with George Stromboulopoulos]
* [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/07summer/shaikh.asp U of T Magazine Interview]
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