Book Launch - "Farida" by Monia Mazigh

Join us for an enlightening and thought-provoking event as we celebrate the book launch of "Farida" by the well-known author Monia Mazigh. This event promises to be an engaging evening of literature and dialogue, featuring a reading by Monia Mazigh herself, followed by an insightful conversation with Zahra Grant from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW).

 Book Signing | Refreshments

Location: Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2M6

Farida was translated from French to English by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott. This novel follows Farida, a young woman in Tunis, is passionate about reading and loves the French language. Farida is compelled to marry Kamel, a brute of a man, who drinks, keeps mistresses, and beats her when she talks back. But she is defiant, and takes comfort from her secret reading. Finally, after ten years she is granted a divorce by the courts and lives with her son Tewfiq. A smoking, independent-minded divorcee, she sees the country attain its freedom from the French and its arrival into modern times; the growth of her son into a young public servant; and her granddaughter Leila mature into an independent, educated young woman.

Monia Mazigh is the author of two memoirs, three novels, and a collection of short stories. She has written for ONFr+, Radio-Canada, the Ottawa Citizen, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star and contributes regularly to Islamic Horizons. Farida won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction. Monia Mazigh is an adjunct and research professor at the Department of English and Literature, Carleton University (Ottawa).

his book launch is in partnership with the CCMW.