Monia Mazigh
Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and has authored so far, a memoir, three novels, an essay and a collection of short stories, celebrated by the critique. Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction. She is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton University at the Department of English and Literature. Her new memoir/essay, “Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f)”, has been a finalist for the Governor General literary award in the non-fiction category for 2023. Monia has been a columnist with ONFr+ and Radio-Canada. She published several articles with the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and regularly contributes to Islamic Horizons.
Writer's Festival Appearances
- CBC RADIO'S ALL IN A DAY BOOK CLUB (2026)
- Writing and Activism: Words in Action (2021)
- A Woman’s Work:<br>Advocate. Soldier. Revolutionary.<br>with Raiyah Patel, Sandra Perron<br> and Monia Mazigh (2017)
- WriteOn! <br>Resilience and Triumph:<br> Immigrant Women<br> Tell Their Stories <br>with Monia Mazigh and<br>Dr. Vanaja Dhruvarajan (2016)
- Stronger Than You Seem<br> with Heather O’Neill, <br>Christine Fischer Guy <br>and Monia Mazigh (2014)
- Self Be True