Monia Mazigh
Company: Carleton University
Title: Adjunct Research Professor / Author / Human rights activist
Expert Overview
Monia Mazigh is an expert on issues of Islamophobia, the war on terror and finance.
Monia Mazigh is an author, academic and a human rights activist. She has authored a memoir called "Hope and Despair", published in 2008 by McClelland and Stewart, narrating the ordeal lived by her husband detained by the American authorities, deported, imprisoned and tortured in Syria for over a year.
In 2014, her novel "Mirrors and Mirages" was published in English by the House of Anansi. It was short listed for the City of Ottawa Book Award and the Trillium Book Award.
Her second novel about the Arab Spring, "Hope has Two Daughters", came out in French in the Fall 2015. It was published in January 2017 by the House of Anansi. Her third novel "Farida" was published in 2020.
Publications/Media Experience
Print | Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act - Quill & Quire
Web | Monia Mazigh on revisiting the turmoil in Tunisia - CBC
Print | 9/11 aftermath — A life destroyed by the 'War on Terror' - Ottawa Citizen
Web | We need a public inquiry into Canada’s presence in Afghanistan - Rabble.ca
Web | Hassan Diab’s long, harrowing struggle for justice - Rabble.ca
Web | Canada is still in denial about Islamophobia - Rabble.ca
Web | Monia Mazigh challenges stereotypes about Muslim women in Mirrors and Mirages - CBC
Video | Novelist & Human Rights Advocate Dr. Monia Mazigh - Rogers TV
Video | Author of Mirrors and Mirages - Let the Quran Speak
Education
McGill University,
PhD. Finance.
École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal,
M.S. Finance.
Awards:
• Award Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2013
• The Canadian Council of Muslim Women Award in 2009
• The Federation of Muslim Women Award in 2009
• The Ottawa Muslim Women Organization Award in 2009
• The Bob Borch Human Rights Award in 2007
• Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Nipissing University in 2007
• The Human Rights Award from the Council of Canadians in November 2005
• Selected one of the 18 Canadian Heroes by the Time Magazine in June of 2004
• Nominated for the Globe and Mail “Nation Builder of the year” award in November of
2003
• Selected as the “news maker of the year 2003” by various media outlets including radio
programs
• James McConnell Fellowship, 1997 – 2000
• McGill Major Fellowship, 1994 – 1997
• Centre of Studies in International Affairs Scholarship, Montreal, 1993