

in Finance, also reviews economics books for a show on Radio-Canada. Monia, author and human rights activist with a Ph.D. She has children and survives the brutality of the Japanese occupation during WWII, and the book follows several generations and the impact on them of the earlier traumas. A girl in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is married off to a stranger from Malaysia and moves there, only to find he is not the wealthy man he claimed to be.

Photo by Andrea PrazmowskiĬurrently Monia is reading The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, and enjoying learning about places and events she hadn’t encountered before.

Monia Mazigh is an author and human rights activist, and also reviews economics books for Radio-Canada. She can, however, tell us about the books she reads for herself, that have to wait until bedtime. She’s on the jury for a book award and it’s all secret until the award recipient is announced. Monia Mazigh is on a deadline to get through a stack of books this summer, but she can’t tell us about them.
