Monia Mazigh
![Mazigh at the [[Eden Mills Writers' Festival]] in 2017](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Monia_Mazigh_at_the_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_2017_%28DanH-1369%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Monia Mazigh () (born 1970) is a Canadian author and academic best known for her efforts to free her husband Maher Arar from a Syrian prison. A resident of Ottawa, Ontario, she was the New Democratic Party candidate for the riding of Ottawa South, a traditionally Liberal riding, in the 2004 federal election. In June 2015 she was appointed National Coordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
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