In my book, "Blown by Iraq," published in 2019 by this honorable publishing house, "Dar al-Rafidain," there was an attempt to document the stormy Iraqi political and social events of the period 1991-2003, and here in this new book there is an attempt to document the terrible phase itself and read it through cultural facts, where it is not possible to approach The Iraqi scene, specifically since the wars and campaigns of repression imposed their heavy and destructive presence on the country and its people, has been a scene completely devoured by alienation and exile. This is an attempt to document the phenomena of literary and artistic production accomplished by writers and artists inside and outside the country, "on both sides of Iraqi culture," and remained obsessed with any possible confrontation with the power of blood, violence, annihilation, and the masses of crushing for the sake of a life that resists dispersion and oppression through banishment and alienation, but it is neither a bibliographic documentation nor a traditional monitoring of a cultural product. Between two times, rather, it is an attempt to read those who refused to "acknowledge the loss and paralysis resulting from blaming oneself and others, and transformed the stolen life with determination and steadfastness into spiritual achievements and deeds," which, to me, is of the highest value that human cultural production seeks.
