Monia Mazigh (Arabic: منية مازيغ) (born 1970) is a Canadian author and academic best known for her efforts to free her husband Maher Arar from a Syrian prison.

She has a PhD in financial economics from McGill University and speaks Arabic, English and French fluently.

[2] Mazigh first entered the public spotlight when her husband was deported to Syria in 2002 by the US government, on suspicion of terrorist links.

However, Mazigh's candidacy was unusual in that Mazigh personally does not support same-sex marriage; had she been elected she would have been the only NDP MP, alongside Desmond McGrath, NDP candidate in the riding of Random-Burin-St. George's in Newfoundland and Labrador, to oppose same-sex marriage by abstaining from a vote.

[2] She was employed as a professor of finance, at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia[7] for about one year until spring 2007.