Samira Bellil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samira Bellil

French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1972

Place of Birth: Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria

Date of Death: 04-Sep-2004

Profession: writer, specialized educator, activist, feminist

Nationality: France, Algeria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Samira Bellil (November 24, 1972 – September 4, 2004) was a French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women. Bellil became famous in France with the publication of her autobiographical book Dans l'enfer des tournantes ('In the hell of the "tournantes" (gang-rapes)) in 2002.
The book discusses the violence she and other young women endured in the predominantly North African and African immigrant outskirts of Paris, where she was repeatedly gang-raped as a teenager by gangs led by people she knew, and then abandoned by her family and friends.
Her book is a portrayal of the predicament of young girls in the poor, outlying suburbs (banlieue) of French cities. The book is available in English (translated by Lucy R.
McNair) as To Hell and Back: The Life of Samira Bellil.