Monia Mazigh presents her novel, Hope Has Two Daughters

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Thursday, March 9th, 2017
1:00 PM to 2:15 PM

Born and raised in Tunisia, Monia Mazigh immigrated to Canada in 1991. She 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. She campaigned tirelessly and successfully for his release, and has gone on to become a human rights advocate and a novelist.

Weaving together the voices of two women at two pivotal moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the Jasmine Revolution in 2010, Hope Has Two Daughters is a bracing, vivid story that perfectly captures life inside revolution. "Can literature bear witness?

This is the literary quest undertaken by Monia Mazigh in her novel about revolutions and families, about the Bread Riots of Tunisia and the Arab Spring. How do women come of age as dissidents? The difficult secrets shared by mothers and daughters are universal in this thoroughly imagined narrative in which a Canadian story is, necessarily, a story of the world." Kim Echlin, author of Under the Visible Life Please note, Monia Mazigh will give another talk and Q&A, focused on her own story , later the same day. It's listed separately. Both events are part of VIU's "Women in March" events to celebrate International Women's Day. They are supported by VIUFA Professional Development and Status of Women funds, by VIU's faculties of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and International Education, by VIU’s Worldbridger, and by House of Anansi Press.

https://moniamazigh.wordpress.com/