Life is threatened

Book title: Life Threatening Author: Abdul Zahra Zaki and Luay Hamza Abbas Publisher: Shahrayar Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 208 About the book: This is a book on the art of dialogue, and on the other hand, it is a book of diaries, but on a third face, it is a book that can form a lively aspect of a society's biography in an exceptional historical moment, the life under Corona. The authors did not limit themselves here to these three features that shape their book; the most prominent feature is their dialogues on literature, thought, and politics, viewed from the critical and pivotal historical moment, the moment between two worlds; the world before Corona, and the world after the pandemic. According to this book, the confinement to the house and the isolation within it, for writers like Abdul Zahra Zaki and Luay Hamza Abbas, is another occasion in which the ban becomes, by its mandate, freedom; the freedom to stay in their cities, Baghdad and Basra, and communicate via WhatsApp with rich dialogues, and the freedom of their daily glimpse on a world distressed by the pandemic and a planet life threatened. It is a rare book in its exceptionalism, deep in its reflections, and confident in its swift response to a dangerous cosmic challenge.