Name Djemila Benhabib | Role Journalist | |
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Similar People Bernard Drainville, Fatima Houda‑Pepin, Zineb El Rhazoui | ||
Djemila Benhabib, écrivaine et militante politique
Djemila Benhabib, c'est quoi la laïcité ?
Djemila Benhabib (Arabic: جميلة بن حبيب) (born 1972) is a Canadian journalist, writer and politician who lives in Quebec. She is of Algerian and Greek-Cypriot descent and is known for her opposition to Muslim fundamentalism.
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- Djemila Benhabib crivaine et militante politique
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Biography
She was born in Ukraine in 1972, but grew up in Algeria. Her father is Algerian and her mother Greek Cypriot.
She was a finalist for the 2009 Governor General's Literary Awards for her non-fiction book Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes. Her second book is Les soldats d'Allah à l'assaut de l'Occident.
In 2010, she appeared on the Jean-Marie Colombani invite show on Public Sénat, the television channel of the French Senate.
In 2012, she received Le Prix international de la laïcité.
She was the Parti Québécois candidate for Trois-Rivières in the 2012 Quebec general election, but narrowly failed to defeat the sitting member, Danielle St-Amand.
She was again candidate in 2014, this time in Mille-Îles, but was defeated by Liberal candidate Francine Charbonneau.
In February 2016, a Quebec Press Council ruling "severely blamed" Benhabib for plagiarizing several articles between 2014 and 2015. According to the council's decision, "[i]n all the articles analyzed, the Council found, to different degrees, plagiarism in the form of passages reproduced word-for-word or reformulated from varying sources, including online dailies, literary authors or researchers or intellectuals."