Sayf Shems
Biographic Data
| ID | 8923215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayf Shems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayf |
| FAMILY NAME | Shems |
| SIGNATURE | SHEMS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Voices of exile: Dialect, identity, and memory in the works of Samir Naqqash and Hassan Blasim
This article explores the sociolinguistic and literary functions of dialect in modern Iraqi literature through a comparative study of Samir Naqqash and Hassan Blasim. It argues that dialect operates not merely as a linguistic choice but as a medium of identity, memory, and resistance. Naqqash, an Iraqi Jewish novelist writing in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, employs his endangered dialect as an act of preservation, transforming it into a living archive of …
Between cohesion and collapse: Iraqi Jewish community life in the novels of Tova Murad Sadka and Mona Yahia
This article offers a comparative literary analysis of Tova Murad Sadka's No Way Back (1984) and Mona Yahia's When the Gray Beetles Took Over Baghdad (2000), two novels by Iraqi Jewish women writers that together form a diptych of communal displacement. Sadka's novel documents the social norms, family authority, and political anxieties of Baghdad's Jewish community during the 1930s and 1940s; Yahia's depicts the survival strategies and eventual f…
Roundtable
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, education, religion, linguistics, literature, architecture, performing and fine arts, among others
The Jewish Other in Modern Iraqi Narrative: Reading ʿAlāʾʾ Mashdhūb's The Hammam of the Jew
This article explores the literary resurgence of marginalized narratives in post-2003 Iraqi fiction, focusing on representations of the Jewish minority. It examines The Hammam of the Jew (Ḥammām al-Yahūdī, 2017) by Alaa Mashdhub (ʿAlāʾ Mashdhūb), a novel that centres on Yaʻqub Shukrallah Daniel, a Jewish protagonist who settles in Karbala and builds a life amidst its Shiite Muslim majority. The narrative traces Yaʻqub’s integration into the city’…
Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: A study of Under the Sky of Isis and The Yazidi Exodus
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Exploring alienation and identity in Iraqi Yazidi literature: A study of Under the Sky of Isis and The Yazidi Exodus
Voices of exile: Dialect, identity, and memory in the works of Samir Naqqash and Hassan Blasim
This article explores the sociolinguistic and literary functions of dialect in modern Iraqi literature through a comparative study of Samir Naqqash and Hassan Blasim. It argues that dialect operates not merely as a linguistic choice but as a medium of identity, memory, and resistance. Naqqash, an Iraqi Jewish novelist writing in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, employs his endangered dialect as an act of preservation, transforming it into a living archive of …
Between cohesion and collapse: Iraqi Jewish community life in the novels of Tova Murad Sadka and Mona Yahia
This article offers a comparative literary analysis of Tova Murad Sadka's No Way Back (1984) and Mona Yahia's When the Gray Beetles Took Over Baghdad (2000), two novels by Iraqi Jewish women writers that together form a diptych of communal displacement. Sadka's novel documents the social norms, family authority, and political anxieties of Baghdad's Jewish community during the 1930s and 1940s; Yahia's depicts the survival strategies and eventual f…
Roundtable
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies encourages research on the Canadian Jewish experience through the disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, geography, history, demography, education, religion, linguistics, literature, architecture, performing and fine arts, among others
The Jewish Other in Modern Iraqi Narrative: Reading ʿAlāʾʾ Mashdhūb's The Hammam of the Jew
This article explores the literary resurgence of marginalized narratives in post-2003 Iraqi fiction, focusing on representations of the Jewish minority. It examines The Hammam of the Jew (Ḥammām al-Yahūdī, 2017) by Alaa Mashdhub (ʿAlāʾ Mashdhūb), a novel that centres on Yaʻqub Shukrallah Daniel, a Jewish protagonist who settles in Karbala and builds a life amidst its Shiite Muslim majority. The narrative traces Yaʻqub’s integration into the city’…
Judaism (3 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (2 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Alienation (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works)