Lital Levy
ليتال ليفي
Comparative study placing Naqqash alongside other Iraqi Jewish novelists; analyses strategies of return and belonging within Arabic literary traditions.
Untranslatable Naqqash: Language Loss and Literary Translation
Fabio Caiani
فابيو كاياني
Investigates the challenges of translating Naqqash into Hebrew and European languages, arguing that his hybridity is constitutively untranslatable.
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.
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.
