Aisha Bennour reviews  painful reality of Arab women in her novel

The Algerian novelist, Aisha Bennour, said she tried to underline the reality of the Arab and Palestinian women, who suffer from a painful and horrible life, persecution, homelessness and hunger, under the weight of war and displacement, in a complete novel titled "Women in Hell", pointing out she wrote another novel titled "Confessions of a Woman."
The novelist said that her two novels are presented in the Cairo International book Fair.

Bennour said in an interview with Arabs Today that "Women in Hell" is a novel open on the Arabian pain. "I wrote it to deliver my voice, which refuses this sweeping destruction in cities, in an attempt to awaken the Arabic conscience, to indicate that the price of this terrible shift in the Arab world map is paid by children and women, she added.

The great Algerian novelist mentioned she did not choose to write about the woman, but the bitter reality is that imposes her to do, describing the novel as a flowing waterfall of memories on the Arab pain.

The novel drawn the image of the courage woman, who resists all kinds of oppression.

The novel mentioned also the prominent women in the Algerian liberation revolution, during the French colonization of Algeria, and their pain and spirit during the acts of torture in prison, such as Gamila Bou Heried, Zohour Zerrari, and Mariem Bou Atorh