The title of a work is a gateway to its textual and thematic underpinnings. Whether the title represents a work of prose or poetry constitutes a very important area in linguistics, in which semantic analysis serves to analyze a text for readers. Najm Wali is a contemporary Iraqi novelist who skillfully illustrates social realities in his works. The carefully selected titles of his novels hint at a particular social, cultural, or political reality of Iraqi society. This descriptive-analytical study examines the semantic features of the author’s titles as well as their lexical, semantic, phonetic, and syntactic aspects. The study suggests Wali’s titles are chosen strategically to signify certain social issues, directing our attention to those problems before we even start reading the novel.
