Reuven Snir
رؤوفين سنير
Examines how Naqqash and other Iraqi Jewish writers deploy nostalgia for Baghdad as a literary and political act in Israeli society.
The Naqqash Archive: Manuscripts, Letters and Unpublished Works
Yuval Evri
يوفال عفري
Presents findings from the Naqqash manuscript archive, including unpublished stories and correspondence, illuminating his creative process.
The Search for Identity in the Works of Samīr Naqqāsh
Geula Elimelekh
جيئولا إليملك
Geula Elimelekh examines how Samīr Naqqāsh, uprooted from Baghdad in the mass emigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel, struggled with alienation and an unresolved search for identity. Focusing on the collections I, They and Ambivalence (1978) and The Day the World Became Pregnant and Miscarried (1980), she shows how his stories set a cherished Iraqi childhood against his difficult life in Israel.
From Oral to Written: Judeo-Iraqi Folk Tradition in Naqqash
Yona Sabar
يونا صبار
Studies how Naqqash transforms Judeo-Iraqi oral folk traditions—stories, proverbs, songs—into written literary form.
