Souad EL ALAOUI BEN HACHEM

Souad EL ALAOUI BEN HACHEM

Sociologist - Writer

Sociologist by training, Souad El Alaoui Ben Hachem, author of “Lis les ratures” and of “Lalla khalti ou la vie au féminin”, published in 2002 and 2003 respectively by Éditions Eddif publishers, also became known to the general public by publishing by the same publisher a collection of eleven short stories entitled “I feel bad inside of me”, a book that is a landmark and depicts people who are victims of sexual harassment. These stories from real life have the merit of revealing the relations of power between women and men in the field of sexuality. The “I feel bad inside of me” book explores one of the most violent problems of contemporary Morocco and of which women are the main victims, namely harassment and rape: "It was necessary to break the silence, to have the courage to speak about it and to testify for other women, for all other women”. Souad El Alaoui Ben Hachem was aware that in this country everything that touches the body is taboo but she took up the challenge of writing this book. Her goal: to break the silence and put an end to the hypocrisy of a whole society and especially to envisage solutions to these evils. Her role model? Her father, "a man exceptionally ahead of his time and who repeated to my sisters and me that the key to our happiness was our moral and financial independence."

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