Career
She is of Algerian and Greek-Cypriot descent. 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.
She was born in Ukraine in 1972.
Her father is Algerian and her mother Greek Cypriot. In 2010, she appeared on the Jean-Marie Colombani invite show on the French television channel Public Sénational
She was the Parti Québécois candidate for Trois-Rivières in the 2012 Quebec general election, but narrowly failed to defeat the sitting member, Danielle Street-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 blames" Benhabib for plagiarizing several articles between 2014 and 2015.
