Fabio Caiani
فابيو كاياني
Contextualises Naqqash within Arabic modernism and the avant-garde movement, arguing he extended modernist experimentation into diasporic space.
Pogrom and Prose: The Farhud in Iraqi Jewish Narrative
Nadia Yaqub
نادية يعقوب
Places the 1941 Farhud at the centre of Iraqi Jewish narrative tradition; Naqqash's story cycle is a key text for analysis.
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.
A Metaphysical World View (I)
Binyamin Rish reads Naqqāsh’s story “The Day the World Became Pregnant and Miscarried” as a philosophical text about how people come to know themselves and the world. Its two protagonists embody opposing traditions. Isḥāq ʿĪda is a misanthropic empiricist who believes in a vengeful God, and Shaul Hillel is a humanist rationalist who believes in a merciful one. The article argues that Naqqāsh shows both approaches failing, portraying human existence as permanently caught in duality.
