- Ghāʾib Ṭuʿmah Farmān (1927 – 1995, Iraq) – al-Nakhla wa al-Jīrān (‘The Palm Tree and the Neighbours’, 1966) depicts life in Baghdad during the Second World War (WWII). The writer made his characters speak the actual language of the real people who inhabited a part of Baghdad during WWII. Different ethnicities thus are made to communicate in different accents and nuances (such as the Armenian and the southern peasant), as well as their conditions (such as what the drunk says) (reference) (also in 1940 – 1945 World War II).
Refrences:
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- Fabio Caiani and Catherine Cobham, 2010. “Bread and Cinema: Baghdad in al-Nakhla wa-ʾl-jīrān by Ghāʾib Tuʿma Farmān.” MEL 13 (3): 231-259