Dear Tara Khaled

In fact, we have been losing intellectuals since at least the 1960s and their works are too difficult to track either because the writers are no longer alive or there is no good archival and or biographical studies that dig out and preserve such writings as well as work to make them accessible . I think your question draws our attention to a very shameful neglect on our part and it keeps the future generations in the dark about the achievement of those whose political and/ or ideological views were not mainstream at some points in history.

I believe it is imperative to work on a some form of a literary anthology to register all the literary works that depicted the turning point in the history of the country and how the American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath were portrayed in the works of Iraqi writers (dead or still alive). It is a promising and massive project but it is not an impossible task. There is a bad need for volunteers to start working on such project. It is a national obligation!

Już u zarania wojny śmierć zebrała żniwo:

• Witkacy – popełnił samobójstwo 18 września 1939 r.
• Józef Czechowicz – zginął podczas bombardowania Lublina w 1939 r.
• Mieczysław Braun – zmarł w getcie warszawskim w r. 1942.
• Bruno Schulz – rozstrzelany w 1942 na ulicy Drohobycza przez gestapowca Güntera.
• Janusz Korczak – w r. 1942 zagazowany w Treblince wraz z dziećmi z sierocińca, którymi do końca się opiekował.
• Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński – rozstrzelany wraz z profesorami Uniwersytetu Lwowskiego w 1941 r.
• Lech Piwowar i Władysław Sebyła – polscy poeci, oficerowie wrześ­nia 1939 – zamordowani w Katyniu.
• Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Tadeusz Gajcy – zginęli w powstaniu warszawskim.

Such an anthology (if possible in the light of comments above) would be really important and valuable.

Tara, try yourself if its possible. A small beginning might be enough.

Then spread it worldwhile.

2nd World War

Russia under Stalin

Nigerian civil war.

Stalin actually had more writers and intellectuals killed than died in most wars.

The talent wasted in the First World War. Poets and scientists.