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Profile: Monia Mazigh embraces fiction as a political act

Published: 17 January 2017

Amid the political anxieties of our time, Monia Mazigh’s latest novel, Hope Has Two Daughters, presents a historical milieu where some of the worst-case scenarios already exist. In 2010 Tunisia, press freedom is non-existent, with all major newspapers toeing the government line; human rights activists and journalists are often jailed; and Muslims are persecuted for openly practising their faith.

...Mazigh, who has a PhD in finance from 91˿Ƶ, expected things would be easier once she arrived in Ottawa. But she found the finance industry in which she worked to be an old boys’ club. There were a minimal number of women working beside her, and few of those were wearing a hijab. Again, Mazigh found herself a minority in a culture that pressured her to conform, but she persisted in her manner of dress, a practice she says gives her strength and protects her “inner soul.”

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