On Tuesday morning, October 12, 2021, at the Department of Arabic Language at the College of Arts, a doctoral thesis entitled (Identity in the Arabic short story in Iraq a Cultural Study in Women’s Stories for the Period (2003-2018)), was discussed.

The thesis presented by the student Yasmin Karim Abdul Reda included a preface and three chapters. The first chapter discussed the forms of identity in women's stories, the second chapter discussed self-representations in women's stories, and the third chapter dealt with social and cultural roles in women's stories.

The thesis aims to show the importance of women’s stories in Iraq during this stage, especially (2003-2018) as an important stage for the Iraqi individual regarding the changes that affected the life of the community, it was a way to reveal through different story texts presented by the storytellers despite their differences in form and content, which led us to identify the identity of the characters in the stories and to understand the variables involved.

The thesis concluded that the period (2003-2018) is a remarkable stage in which women absorbed the contents of that transformation and its significance with intense conflict and competition between the human self and the reality, so the stories came loaded with the influence of the past and the changes of the present in contexts that are not separate from each other, so identities varied in them.