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Gendered Islamophobia by Monia Mazigh CBC May 8, 2023
The death of the Arab Spring Rabble Apr 26, 2023
Mazigh: Why is the Canadian government still targeting Muslim charities? Ottawa Citizen Dec 13, 2022
Femicide is a global epidemic Rabble Jul 15, 2022
Blackstock, Farha, Mazigh, Neve: Five questions about human rights and the Ottawa trucker protest Ottawa Citizen Feb 8, 2022
How Prime Minister Trudeau can prove that he is serious about fighting Islamophobia Rabble Oct 26, 2021
Mazigh: 9/11 aftermath — A life destroyed by the ‘War on Terror’ Ottawa Citizen Sep 10, 2021
Mazigh: We need a public inquiry into Canada’s presence in Afghanistan Rabble.ca Aug 27, 2021
Mazigh: The roots of Islamophobia are much deeper than most Canadians can comprehend Ottawa Citizen Jun 15, 2021
Canada is still in denial about Islamophobia Rabble.ca June 9, 2021
Monia Mazigh on revisiting the turmoil in Tunisia The Next Chapter CBC Radio Mar 13, 2017
Profile: Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act Quill & Quire Jan 2017
Dr. Monia Mazigh (@MoniaMazigh) is a Canadian author, human rights advocate and academic born and raised in Tunisia. Dr. Mazigh was catapulted onto the public stage in 2002 when her husband Maher Arar was deported to Syria where he was tortured and held without charge for over a year. During that time, Dr. Mazigh campaigned vigorously for her husband’s release and later fought to re-establish his reputation and successfully sought reparations. In January 2007, after a lengthy inquiry, her husband finally received an apology from the Canadian government.
Dr. Mazigh’s book Hope and Despair documents her ordeal after her husband was arrested and how she campaigned to clear his name. Her book Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) was published in June, 2023.
She has written for the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, Le Devoir and other newspapers and is a columnist for Rabble.ca.
Dr. Mazigh won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction in 2021 for her novel Farida. In 2011, her French novel Miroirs et mirages, stories of four Muslim women living in Canada, was shortlisted for the prestigious Ontario Trillium award, for the Ottawa Book Award and for the Book Award of the Salon du Livre de Toronto. Her novel about the events of the Arab Spring, Hope has Two Daughters, was published in English in 2017 by Anansi House.
Dr. Mazigh lives in Ottawa, and holds a PhD from McGill University.