The book "Reading and the Tomahawk with Cultural Assassination" by the Iraqi writer and poet Adnan Al-Sayegh is an intellectual and literary work combining critical essays with cultural vision. It explores the complex relationship between reading, culture, power, and violence.

In the first part, "Reading and the Tomahawk," Al-Sayegh discusses the impact of reading on shaping individual and communal consciousness and how books become tools of resistance against attempts of marginalization.

In the second part, "Cultural Assassination," it focuses on the tragic experiences of intellectuals in the Arab world, especially in Iraq, where pens confront bullets, and thought faces exclusion and repression, highlighting the history of assassinating intellectuals physically or symbolically through exclusion and distortion.