Critical Conversations

Taking Flight: Newcomers in Canada

Monia Mazigh

6:00pm

Thursday, September 28, 2023

60 mins

TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Canada prides itself on its approach to newcomers, impressively raising its targets recently for migration in the coming years. Toronto proudly states that 52% of the city’s population was born somewhere else. These remarkable news stories don’t come without their challenges, as highlighted by recent increases in hate crimes and violence. How do our cities adapt to welcome the world to live and work? What are the challenges that come when cultures clash? Where are the conversations between communities? Featuring Monia Mazigh, whose new book Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) captures her struggles as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, who was born and raised in Tunisia before coming to Quebec.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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Monia Mazigh

Monia Mazigh is an academic, award-winning Canadian author and human rights activist. She writes in French and English and authored so far, a memoir, three novels celebrated by the critique and an essay. Her latest novel, Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction. Monia Mazigh is an Adjunct and research Professor at Carleton University at the Department of English and Literature. Her new memoir, My personal journey with a Scar(f), an essay/memoir about gendered islamophobia, has been published in June 2023. Monia is a literary columnist with ONFr+. She published several articles with the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star and other newspapers.