The Al-Ameed Association Pavilion at the Tunis Book Fair turns into a place to get to know Iraq

The pavilion of the Al-Ameed scientific and intellectual Association at the Tunis International Book Fair turned into a window revealing what is hidden about the societies in the Maghreb countries, from cultural and societal issues inside Iraq.

A member of the association's delegation to the exhibition, Mr. Jassam Mohamed Saidi, said that "one of the most prominent activities of the Al-Ameed scientific and intellectual Association at the thirty-eighth Tunis International Book Fair is to answer the questions initiated by most of those who visited the pavilion from the elites, intellectuals or the general public".

"Most Tunisians took the initiative to ask those in charge of the pavilion about Iraq as a country and people, before and after the change on 9/4/2003, because of their keen interest in Iraq, which they consider a source of culture and civilization, and recall what Iraq provided to their country in the seventies and Eighties of the last century,"he added.

"The most prominent questions were: what is the news of the cultural and intellectual movement?" Has Iraq returned to its glory? Is it safe now? Is it possible to travel to it ? Many of them, due to their lack of knowledge about the Iraqi situation, were praying for the deceased tyrant, and believed in things that had nothing to do with reality before 9/4/2003, and here was the role of those in charge of the pavilion in answering those question of the exhibition's visitors, most of whom were from Tunisia, Libya and Algeria,"he said.

Al-Saidi continued by saying, "we explained The Crimes of the defunct dictatorial regime and the amount of injustice suffered by the Iraqi people, based on the evidence of some sources and what was published in the institutions of the Al-Abbas's (P) holy shrine in this regard, and those answers were welcomed by the public, some of them even wished to get an opportunity to visit Iraq and take a close look at the ongoing cultural and scientific movement and the free space for all Iraqi creative talents, which may be one of the best matters that have happened in the country over the past few centuries, not only better than the pre-regime era, which many visitors to the exhibition thought was the best era in Iraqi history".