- ʿAlī Badr (?, Iraq) – Ḥāris al-Tabagh (2008, English trans. The Tobacco Keeper, 2011). After the US-led invasion of Iraq, the hero of this novel is asked to write up the life of the composer Kamal Madhat. Writing up his biography reveals his forced migration to Israel as an Iraqi Jew in 1950, his subsequent move to Tehran and Damascus, and his eventual return to Baghdad as a musician respected by Saddam Hussein. His life history reflects on the history of Iraq, Iran, Israel, and Syria from the 1920 onwards (also in R: Religion and Sectarianism: Judaism and Arab-Jew Relationships).
- Samīr Naqqāsh (1938 – 2004, Iraq) – Nuzūlah wa Khayṭ al-Shayṭān (1986, English trans. Tenants and Cobwebs, 2018). This novel is set against the background of the Farhud Pogrom in 1941, when mob violence against Iraqi Jews erupted in Baghdad, and includes several Jewish Arab characters living in the city in the 1940s. The novel describes the changing relationship between the Jewish characters who refuse to leave the city when the state of Israel was founded in 1948, and a mass exodus of Iraqi Jews that took place in 1951. The author himself was an Iraqi Jew who moved to Israel when he was thirteen. The novel uses Baghdadi Jewish dialect (also in R: Religion and Sectarianism: Judaism and Arab – Jew relationships).
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