Social
Scientists. . . Where are you?
Professor
Ibrahim Al-Allaf
Expert
professor, University of Mosul,
Translated
by: Dr. Mahmood Faris
We,
me and Dr. Khalil Al-Khalidy, professor of social sciences, today on Monday
24th of April 2017, were discussing the role of sociologists in treating Iraq's
problems... And I said to him it's not enough to write theses and letters about
some problem or another, because it
doesn't reach people, and it is not
enough to write researches or studies we publish for the sake of promotion in
academic magazines that doesn't reach people,
but we have to find social scientists like the deceased, unique Dr. Ali Alwardi
which I don't elaborate if I say that most of Iraqis memorize his words about
the duality of personality, social repellency, the conflict between peasantry
and civilization by heart. This is why Dr. Alwardi stayed alive between us.
Where
are the sociologists in Iraq? Some of them have pages on social media, but I
don't see them practicing their role on social and psychological awareness
between people, but instead I see them
sitting in their palaces, busy in gaining gold from education, supervision,
writing promotion researches, or attending conferences away from real life.
The
man supported me saying we should use your
voice to raise the mettle of social scientists to analyze the social and
economic crises.
The
sociologists should participate in researching the events occurring in the
Iraqi community which is collapsing and
wearing away.
Dear
sociologists, come where your country needs you the most, whether inside or
outside Iraq, show your strength and
your pens, use your computers, to write and publish your solutions to what
oppression and external and internal wars had cast over this country, the
blockade. the invasion, and dark forces.
What
is your attitude toward extremism? your attitude toward the illegitimate shares
within political contracts and their
effects on the future of Iraq? Your attitude while Mosul is returning back
under Iraq?
Your
attitudes concerning widows, the needy, special care? and the effects of oppression, isolation,
political and social segregation? the and what are your plans concerning
reconstruction and re-building of the community again?
The
choice is yours, as I always say to my students "There are many numbers in
universities, and very few symbols". For whomever wants to be a symbol in
his society, should always strive to implement what we are saying and offering,
and your talk and action should have
effect on the ordinary people, not just in deep books, and library shelves.... We wait and see.
Professor
Ibrahim Al-Allaf
Translated
by "Dr. Mahmood Faris
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