{"id":475,"date":"2003-11-26T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/11\/26\/monia-mazigh\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T21:50:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:50:53","slug":"monia-mazigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/11\/26\/monia-mazigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Monia Mazigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a784\"><\/a>  In case you missed this when it came out, on the 23rd <em>The Toronto Star<\/em> had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1069542607028&amp;call_pageid=968332188492&amp;col=968793972154\">wonderful tribute by journalist Haroon Siddiqui<\/a> to a remarkable woman: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerra.net\/freemohamed\/print.php?news.31\">Monia Mazigh<\/a>, who fought for her husband <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/arar\/\">Maher Arar<\/a>&#8216;s human rights while he was held (and was being tortured) in a Syrian jail after the Americans inexplicably deported this Canadian citizen to Syria.  Dr. Mazigh, who holds a PhD in financial economics from McGill University, is currently a stay-at-home mother, which didn&#8217;t stop her from raising a ruckus to get her husband released.  At a Toronto mosque, a volunteer imam told the congregation that Mazigh &#8220;had turned public perception of a Muslim woman on its head.&#8221;  Mazigh responded by saying that she hoped she had used her public role well, and she urged Muslim men to &#8220;encourage their wives and daughters to raise their voices, and be outspoken.&#8221;  Hear hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed this when it came out, on the 23rd The Toronto Star had a wonderful tribute by journalist Haroon Siddiqui to a remarkable woman: Monia Mazigh, who fought for her husband Maher Arar&#8216;s human rights while he was held (and was being tortured) in a Syrian jail after the Americans inexplicably deported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}