# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monia-mazigh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:55:43.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monia-mazigh"
name: "Monia Mazigh"
slug: "monia-mazigh"
description: "Monia Mazigh 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."
tagline: "Canadian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monia_Mazigh_at_the_Eden_Mills_Writers_Festival_2017_(DanH-1369)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.955329333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "منية مازيغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "منيه مازيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monia_Mazigh"
    title: "Monia Mazigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monia_Mazigh"
    title: "Monia Mazigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3320709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations