Memoir as Counter-narrative, A Postcolonial Study in “Call it Dreaming” by Sasson Somekh

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the memoirs of the Israeli writer of Iraqi descent Sasson Somekh (1933-2019): "Call it Dreaming- Memories 1951- 2000 "(2008) in which he presents the history of the Iraqi Jews after their immigration to Israel in the early 1950s, as an alternative narrative form used by the author to confirm the Arab cultural identity Among the Jews of Arab countries in the new society.
The study is based on the post-colonial theory that examines the relations between the discourse of the colonialist and the discourse opposing it and reveals the importance of literary writings as an alternative narrative discourse that confronts the official discourse that usually has an authoritarian and exclusionary nature that marginalizes other types of discourse, The study also adopts the cultural criticism approach which aims to reveal the culture system within the literary text as a cultural condition before it is an aesthetic value.