Judeo Arabic or “Haki Mal Yehud” is a dialect of Arabic spoken within the Iraqi-Jewish community of Baghdad and Basra (see cultural theorist, Ella Shohat’s unpacking of the term Judeo-Arabic). Jews would speak in a slightly different manner from the Muslims, whose Arabic was referred to as “Haki Mal Aslam,” but in public arenas and in school, they would adopt Classical Arabic. It is important to note that the greater differences in the Iraqi language were mostly regional; for instance, Mosul vis Baghdad, and so on. A Mosul Jew might likely be Kurdish and so would speak in yet another dialect.