Tesshin Shadows Iraqi Protest Diaries 2019

A brief about the book "October Specters: Iraqi Protest Diaries 2019" The organic intellectual engages wherever he is, with all his tools and intellectual weapons, against the forces of tyranny and injustice, in all their forms and manifestations. His heart and mind remain with his homeland and within it, even in exile. Thus, when the youth of Iraq and its young women rose up in October 2019 against the corrupt regime that was oppressing the country, demanding their stolen and plundered homeland, Shaker Al-Nasiri accompanied the protests with his heart and pen, in solidarity and support, calling out with the protesters as if he were with them. He analyzed the roots of the uprising, its context, its discourse, and followed its escalating rhythm, expanding scope, and demands. Documenting pivotal moments, as well as bloody confrontations and crimes committed by the corrupt regime against unarmed protesters, and its attempts to absorb their momentum and disperse them. This precious and important book gathers the diaries of October written with hope and pain, along with insightful analytical articles published by the author during the uprising. Written in his smooth style, with deep vision and a critical sense that does not compromise. This book comes while the dominant forces are intensifying their attempts to plunder, distort, and suppress the memory of October. This is the usual approach of regimes, authorities, their propaganda, and their scribes in trying to cement the regime's narrative and its version of official history. They try to deny the revolutions, voices, bodies, and memories, pushing them to the margins and burying them in oblivion. But there are always those who resist all of that, who write, guard the memory, and protect the history of victims and martyrs from thieves and killers. Shaker Al-Nasiri is one of those, defending his body, life, and heart in Iraq and on it.