Dr. Hilla Peled-Shapira
Research
Iraqi Communist literature; literature and ideology
Social conventions and their contravention in Arabic literature
Genocide and trauma in Kurdish poetry in Arabic
Arabic literature of exiles
Metaphors, the urban space and time perception in modern Arabic Literature
Publications
מאמרים
1. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "From Rebirth in the Tigris River to Documentation of the Iraqi Marshes: Bodies of Water in the Prose Works of ‘Abd al-Rahman Majid al-Rubay‘i, Gha'ib Tu‘ma Farman, and ‘Aliya Mamduh", Shima, 2026, 20(1).
2. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "He Imagined This Worm Crawling Over His Skin :״ Echoes of Hiroshima in Post-WWII Iraqi Literature", The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, 2025, vol 11 n 1/2.
3. Fareda Alkrenawi and Hilla Peled-Shapira, "Language, Nationality and Gender: Identity Struggles in Three Novels by Inaam Kachachi", The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, 2025, vol 11 n 1/2.
4. Hilla Peled-Shapira & Ronen Zeidel, "Pain, Tears and Blood: Doubts about the Concept of Revolution in Ghāʾib Ṭuʿmah Farmān’s al- Makhāḍ", The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Published online: 15 Jul 2024. https://www.academia.edu/122073855/Pain_Tears_and_Blood_Doubts_about_th…
5. Hilla Peled-Shapira, “We Yearn for the Sun Like a Baby Yearns for Its Mother's Milk" – an Eco-critical Reading of Iraqi Literature of Exiles”, The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, vol 7, no. 2 (Fall 2021).
6. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari?", Kurdish Studies, 2014, vol.2 no. 1.
7. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "Days like Nights Indeed? On Time Perception in the Works of the Kurdish- Iraqi Poet Buland al-Ḥaydarī", Die Welt des Islams, 2013, 53(1).
8. Hilla Peled-Shapira, ""Permitted and Forbidden" - Conventions of Relations between the Sexes and Their Contravention as Reflected in the Novels of Ghāˀib Ṭuˁma Farmān", Middle Eastern Studies, 2013, vol. 49 issue 3.
9. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "Religion and Politics: On the Motif of Blindness in 'Abd al-Malik Nuri's "Rih al-janub" and Ga'ib Tu'mah Farman's "'Ammi abburni"", Journal of Arabic Literature, 2013, vol. 44, issue 3.
10. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "From Imperial Capital to Dungeon: The Construction of the Image of the City in the Works of the Kurdish-Iraqi Poet Buland al-Ḥaydarī", Oriente Moderno, 2012, XCII 1.
11. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "On the Horns of A Dilemma: Intellectuals between the Regime and the People as Reflected in Iraqi Communist Literature", The Levantine Review, 2012, vol. 1 no. 2.
12. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "From Conventional to Personal, or: What Happened to Metaphor under the Influence of Ideology - the Case of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman", Journal of Semitic Studies, 2009, LIV/1.
ספרים
13. Hilla Peled-Shapira, The Prose Works of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman: The City and the Beast (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield - Lexington Books, 2018).
פרקים בספרים
14. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "'The government is the servant of the people': clashes between state and society in the monarchic Iraq as reflected in two short stories by Gha'ib Tu'mah Farman and Shakir Khusbak" in: Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood (eds), Evolving State Society Relations in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratization (London and New York: I.B.Tauris, 2017), pp. 69-89.
ביקורת ספרים
15. Hilla Peled-Shapira, “Women, Writing and the Iraqi Baʿthist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968–2003, Hawraa Al-Hassan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)” in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, May, 2022.
16. Hilla Peled-Shapira, “Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932–2017), Meir Hatina and Yona Sheffer (Eds.) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021)” in: Hamizrah Hehadash (The New East): Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, vol 62, 2023, 299-300 (in Hebrew).
Last Updated Date : 18/04/2026