הזיקה בין ספרות, מקום וזהות: מחקר על יהודי עיראק בישראל

Starting from the paradox that Babylon, the archetypal land of exile, was home to Iraqi Jews, Geula Elimelekh reads Naqqāsh’s fiction as testimony of a “double diaspora”: emigration to Israel felt like uprooting, not homecoming. Through stories such as “Willow Night,” “In the House of Tatters and Wonders” and “Ṭanṭal,” she shows how he contrasts a rich lost world in Baghdad with the humiliations of immigrant life, using memory to preserve the civilization he lost.

Traces allusions to Jewish religious texts and practice in Naqqash's ostensibly secular fiction, revealing a deep intertextual engagement.