College of Basic Education

The College of Basic Education at the University of Mosul discussed a master’s thesis on (Place in the Novels of Nawzat Shamdin), on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, in the “Al-Hadbaa” Hall in the college.

The thesis submitted by student Nidal Ibrahim Hassan Mohammed, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, aimed to study place in Nawzat Shamdin’s novels and reveal how it transforms from a mere geographical framework for events to a fundamental element in constructing the narrative text. For Shamdin, place is not a silent space, but rather a living entity that interacts with characters, time, and events, and reflects psychological, social, and cultural dimensions.
The study addressed several axes, including (addressing the imagined place in the writer’s novels, in its closed and open, natural, and artificial forms. He focused on the relationship between memory and the present of place, and how historical places overlap with the present moment to form a narrative space rich in meaning.)
The study reached several results, most notably that place in Nawzat Shamdin’s novels is not a neutral element, but rather a living narrative component that overlaps with the rest of the narrative elements, influencing them and being influenced by them.
The discussion committee was chaired by Professor Dr. Jassim Mohammed Jassim, and included Assistant Professor Dr. Mohammed Abdul Mawgoud Hassan, Assistant Professor Dr. Salem Najm Abdullah, and Professor Dr. Mohammed Younis Saleh Al-Jeraisy as a member and supervisor.

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