Dr. Hilla Peled-Shapira

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Research Categories
    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

    Refereed Articles:

    1. 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…

    2. 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).

    3. Hilla Peled-Shapira, "Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari?", Kurdish Studies, vol.2 no. 1.

    4. 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, 53-1. 31 pages.

    5. 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, vol. 49 issue 3. 11 pages.

    6. 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, vol. 44, issue 3.

    7. 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 XCII 1.

    8. 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, vol. 1 no. 2.

    9. 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 LIV/1.

    ביקורת ספרים

    10. 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.

    11. 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).

     

     

    Book:

    12. The Prose Works of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman: The City and the Beast (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018).

    https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498504669/The-Prose-Works-of-Gha%E2%80%99ib…

    *** Review of The Prose Works of Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman: The City and the Beast by Levi Thompson: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40333/Review-of-The-Prose-Works-Of-Gha%E2%80%99%E2%80%99ib-Tu%E2%80%99-Ma-Farman-The-City-and-the-Beast . Published in Arab Studies Journal (Fall, 2019).

     

    Book Chapter:

    13. "'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 (I.B. Tauris, 2017).

     

    Book Reviews:

     

    14. 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: IJMES - International Journal of Middle East Studies, published online 20 April 2022.  

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743822000332

     

    15. 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).

    https://www.academia.edu/106576048/Review_of_Meir_Hatina_and_Yona_Sheff…

     

    other:

    *"Opposition intellectuals then and now: What do they have in common?" – An article in The Guardian. 13 July 2012.

    https://www.academia.edu/2390893/Opposition_intellectuals_then_and_now_What_do_they_have_in_common

     

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    Last Updated Date : 17/07/2024