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Book SynopsisThe history and politics of Syrian Kurdistan, with a special focus on the revolution in Rojava.
Trade Review'Preferable to most journalistic accounts that reduce the Rojava revolution to a single narrative. It will remain an informative resource even when the realities have further changed' -- Martin van Bruinessen, Kurdish Studies 3 (2), (2015)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
The Development of Kurdish Parties
1. The Long Struggle for Autonomy
2. Background and Methods of Social Science Research in War
3. Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and Assyrians: Rojava as Part of the Ethnic Diversity of Syria
4. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Alevi, and Êzîdî: Religious Pluralism in Rojava
5. Kurdistan: Country without a State or Country against the State
6. Syrian Kurdistan under the French Protectorate
7. Kurds in Independent Syria
8. In the Crosshairs of Pan-Arabism: From the United Arab Republic to Ba‘athism
9. Special Census and Statelessness
10. The Kurds under Ba‘athist Rule
11. Between Two Brief Springs: Rojava under Bashar al-Assad
12. The Kurdish Party Landscape
13. From Revolution to Civil War
14. Military Developments since 2012
15. Political Economy in the Civil War
16. The Kurdish Districts of Aleppo
17. The Kurdish Para-State in Rojava
18. Voices from Rojava
19. Conclusion: Rojava, Quo Vadis?
Bibliography
List of Interviews
Notes
Index
