What are the news from Iraq? Poor despite the proclamations of the U.S., despite the claims of indigenous leaders of the green zone. From the land of two rivers, our friends, those who stayed, like those that remained attached despite the exile of survival, share, tell, ... publish on the Net.
Kitabat is an Iraqi site remarkable: all the ideas, really all the ideas, find their place. It talks about politics, economics, history, literature, poetry, denounces it, it will call to revolt ...
Those who have the luck and happiness to master the Arabic language should make a detour , unilingual Francophones - poor them! - Will miss many things. But he is not here to make calls to Kitabat who does not really need. These indicate something serious and poignant at a time. In recent days, on the front page of the site, it says a call serious and grave sent to all pens that write in and Kitabat rampant and they are very numerous.
The appeal, citing threats real, urgent, serious, physical liquidations from media and government militia, called "sincerely", all writers, especially those who live in Iraq, to "refrain from writing in their real names in Kitabat and use a pseudonym of their choice to preserve their lives and their safety. We also respect all the names who have renounced their previous writings in order to preserve and protect their lives and those of their ... . This invitation to the nickname, said the site "will remain posted until Thursday, September 25, 2009, thanking you for your attention and your answer." Writers concerned could console themselves by saying they will create new names, free of obligations attached to the reputation of the true good or bad. Who knows, these aliases will allow them to survive, perhaps, to transcend sectarian alignments that have become a reality in Iraq under the thumb of the Americans. Still Kitabat was right to highlight the threat and how to advise writers to find alternative names. In Iraq, you die easily ... In fact the "mass" of the war, nobody was really interested in the first year of occupation, in the long series of Iraqi scientists who have high-level ... Nothing was assassinated today, does say that the government is able to avoid an epidemic of murders among the writers of Kitabat ... however the Iraqis retain a sense of humor. Black, of course, but humor. Very explosive. "If you put the djellaba, Kurdish kill yourself ... If you put the saroual, Arabic kill yourself. If you put the government held the resistance will kill you ... If you dress in civilian militia kill yourself ... If you dress anything, the cold will kill you ... May God help the Iraqis. "
http://www.kitabat.com/
