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Leila Marshy

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Of Palestinian and Newfoundland origin, Leila Marshy pursued higher education in Montreal, as well as in Cairo and Egypt. A long-time activist for the Palestinian cause in the Middle East, her civic commitment led her, in 2011, to co-found the community group Les amis de la rue Hutchison with Mindy Pollak. Two years later, she took part in Projet Montréal’s election campaign, at the end of which the first woman of the Hasidic Jewish faith was elected to an elected position in Quebec See Radio-Canada 1 1 “Mindy Pollak, first Hasidic Jew to be elected in Quebec”, https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/640830/outremont-pollak-hassidique (December 2, 2022). . Meanwhile, Marshy is developing and honing her expertise in marketing, communications and publishing. Her fiction and poetry are published in various Canadian and American magazines, and in March 2018, her first novel The Philistine was published by Linda Leith Publishing (LLP). A finalist for the Miramichi Reader James M. Fisher Best Book Award, “The Philistine by Leila Marshy” 2 2 The Miramichi Reader, 2018,https://miramichireader.ca/2018/11/philistine-leila-marshy/ (December 2, 2022). , in 2018 and for the Kobo Emerging Writer Rakuten kobo 3 3 “The 2019 Literary Fiction Shortlist,” https://www.kobo.com/media-hub/rakuten-kobo-emerging-writer-prize-2019 (July 11, 2023). and Expozine Litery Awards Expozine 4 4 “The Expozine Awards Gala,” https://expozine.ca/prix/prix-2019/ (December 2, 2022). , in 2019, The Philistine was translated into French by Sophie Voillot in 2021. Leila Marshy is now an associate editor at LLP and still lives in Montreal.

Books by Leila Marshy

Leila Marshy
La philistine 
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La philistine 
Coming-of-age story, Family relationships, Homosexuality, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East

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