Monia Mazigh will speak about her new book, Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar, as part of The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law’s Distinguished Speakers Series on Thursday, April 2.
The book focuses on the challenges Mazigh went through when her husband was deported to Syria in 2002, where he was tortured and held without charge for more than a year.
The lecture will be held at noon in the Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law.
Mazigh was born and raised in Tunisia and immigrated to Canada in 1991. She holds a PhD in finance from McGill University and speaks Arabic, French, and English fluently. She has worked at the University of Ottawa and taught at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
In 2004, she ran in the federal election for the NDP, coming third but gaining the most votes for the riding the NDP had ever received. Mazigh lives in Ottawa with her husband and two children.