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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45927)	4/16/2004 12:48:02 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Iraqi writers, intellectuals tell of fear, censorship under Saddam dailystar.com.lb BAGHDAD: Prominent Iraqi author Hamid al-Mukhtar is looking for a new style of writing to express himself. "I want to experiment new ways of writing and all other Iraqi authors should do so too, now that we are free from Saddam Hussein's control," said Mukhtar, who has been heading the Union of Iraqi Authors since the fall of the regime last year. The lack of freedom of speech under Saddam took its toll on many Iraqi writers and poets, who were compelled to resort to vague language to escape the regime's brutal punishment and the censors' strict limitations. "I've always been writing stories and poetry that are open to several interpretations," Mukhtar told The Daily Star at the Shahbandar Cafe, where many of Baghdad's intellectuals meet on Fridays. "It was the only way for me and other authors to avoid the restrictions imposed on us by the security censors," he said, complaining that it entailed spending double the amount of time and effort to finish a literary piece. "Now, we have the chance to try different styles." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Marshes Revive in Postwar Iraq planetark.com HWAIR, Iraq - Water is reflooding parts of the Iraqi wetlands drained by Saddam Hussein to deny refuge to Shi'ite rebels, but the communities displaced by war and oppression may never recreate their ravaged way of life. Ole Jepsen, an adviser in Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in the south, said 30 to 40 percent of the marshes had been reflooded since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam a year ago. "This is more than anyone expected." Jepsen said some 200,000 refugees from southern Iraq had returned, though not all to their ancestral homes. "We prefer to stay here," said Qasim Hassan, who returned last year from Iran and now lives in a mud brick shack beside a broad canal built on Saddam's orders to drain the marshes.