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Possibly only in Iraq could Survivor bring a new sense of reality to reality TV. Here, it's not called Survivor - it's called Playing House. But in a nation skidding toward civil war, putting Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians under a single roof to play house might literally end up as a contest for survival of the fittest.
The creators of "Beit Beut", the name of a game that has been a staple of Iraqi childhood for as long as anyone can remember, had just the opposite in mind, though. The prime-time reality series that aired every evening during the holy month of Ramadan, which ended this week, is a unique local hybrid of Survivor and Big Brother, and its message is: "United we stand; divided we fall."