Yona Sabar
يونا صبار
Scholarly linguistic study of Naqqash's deliberate incorporation of Neo-Aramaic (Jewish Baghdadi dialect) into his literary Arabic prose.
Kafkaesque Metamorphosis as Reflected in the Works of Samir Naqqash
Geula Elimelekh compares Samir Naqqash with Franz Kafka, showing that dehumanization and metamorphosis recur in Naqqash’s stories as they do in Kafka’s. Like Kafka, Naqqash moves from a specific local reality, that of Iraqi Jews, to universal themes of the twentieth century: man abandoned without divine providence, chasing reason and science after the collapse of his spiritual world.
Narrative Space and Displacement in Samir Naqqash's Novels
Yehouda Shenhav
يهودا شنهاف
Applies narrative theory to examine how spatial displacement functions in Naqqash's novels as a structural and thematic device.
Samir Naqqash and His Polyglotic Literaturein the Age of National Partition
Almog Behar; Yuval Evri
ألموغ بيهار، يوفال عفري
Almog Behar and Yuval Evri challenge the familiar image of Samir Naqqash as the “last” Arab-Jewish writer clinging nostalgically to a dying language. They argue that his prose weaves Baghdadi Jewish and other dialects, Judeo-Arabic traditions and modern literary Arabic into a multilingual fabric that resists the linguistic and literary partitions created by colonialism, nationalism and secularization.
