Ali Hussein Al-Wardi (1913-1995) the great Iraqi sociologist. He is more than filling the world and occupying people in his era.. He worried rulers and clerics, and slept with his opinions and ideas in which he explained the nature of Iraqi society and the Iraqi personality.. and other issues related to the legacy of his country in its past and present. In this work, the features of the effort exerted by one of the most prominent Iraqi journalists, Professor Salam Al-Shamaa, appear clearly in a book that collects the exchanged letters of Dr. Ali Al-Wardi with his relative, Professor Khalil Ibrahim Al-Ward, an employee in the Directorate of Knowledge of Baghdad, and his father, Hussein Al-Wardi. And the author does that during the five years he spent reading these letters, classifying them, explaining what he obscured from them, investigating them, collecting information for them, introducing the personalities whose names were mentioned in the letters, and everything that obscures the Arab reader other than the people of the city of Kadhimiya, which are repeatedly mentioned in the letters. With the addition of an appendix for documents and photos.
The book was titled (Exchanged Letters: Ali Al-Wardi.. Between Texas and Baghdad.. 1946-1950). The importance of these letters, according to the author, is that they: throw revealing lights on the lives of people in Iraq and the events that passed through them during the years (1946-1945-1946-1947). 1948 - 1949 - 1950), and in it is a certificate of coexistence for her, the artist Khalil Al-Ward, which he used to transmit with what we did not find in any book, to Al-Wardi, who was waiting for these letters with great passion, especially the repercussions of World War II and its effects on the daily life of Iraqi families, including the Al-Wardi family And a description of what happened in the leap of January 1948, and the parliamentary life and how the elections were held and the common people understood them, as well as what Ali Al-Wardi was reporting from the events of America...".
He presented the book with a word worthy of Al-Wardi and the author of the book Al-Shamaa. a. Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Al-Allaf and what was stated in it: “... the work that our friend Professor Salam Al-Shamaa undertook was great and very great, and history will record for him that he presented from the secrets of Al-Wardi’s thoughts, directions, theories and opinions what we did not know before, through his personal messages, which are As it is known from the sources of history, we discovered the details of Al-Wardi’s life while he was a doctoral student, and this is something that my brother, Professor Salam Al-Shama’a, praises for, so I wish him success...”.
