Hamza Haq graduated from a hired consultant to the star of “Transplant,” a new medical drama premiering Sept. 1 on NBC.In the series, which debuted on Canada’s CTV earlier this year, Haq plays Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor and refugee who, through a series of events, finds himself part of the medical team at a downtown Toronto hospital — while trying to raise his 12-year-old sister, Amiri (Sirena Gulamgaus).Haq, 29, had played a foreign exchange student on “Transplant” creator Joseph Kay’s previous series, “This Life” — and that, he says, set him in good stead when Kay was developing his new show.“He invited me to talk about what it feels like being a brown man and a Muslim in Canada today,” says Haq, who was born to Pakistani parents in.
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