Al-Kalimah's aim is to have correspondences in all major Arab countries, and to provide its readers with regular reports, from the field, on cultural concerns and issues debated by the intellectual scene in each country. The reports included in the Arabic version are all listed in the table of content. But one of them, a report from Iraq is available in English translation below.

This unique, ironic and insightful report on a large conference of Iraqi intellectuals, written by a leading Iraqi novelist of the younger generation, illustrates the dilemma of culture in the torn and suffering Iraq, under the brutality of ignorant and illegal occupation.

Al-Kalimah is keen to give its reader the other side of the bloody picture that comes out of Iraq, by reporting on its cultural life and the problems facing its intellectuals. Here is another report on the state of both print and audio-visual media in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.