Writing and Activism: Words in Action

with Monia Mazigh

Hosted by the Department of English, Carleton University

Live Online Politics Non-Fict History

Admission

Free

Tuesday

Nov , 2021

7:00pm

Eastern

Add to my Calendar

Monia Mazigh

This event is presented by the Department of English, Carleton University

A Reading and Discussion with Author, Activist, and Carleton Adjunct Research Professor Monia Mazigh

The Authors

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.