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Book SynopsisWhile dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography, extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish groups with competing and at times conflicting views and goals. The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, with an emphasis on continuity and change in the Kurdish Question, brings together a group of well-known scholars to shed light on this complex issue.
Trade Review“The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics is a comprehensive review of the long-lasting Kurdish Question and the most important issues facing the Kurds today. Academics, students, and observers alike will find this volume valuable.” -- Jordi Tejel, University of Neuchâtel
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Kurdish Political Representation in Turkey: The Changing Context and New Trends
Cengiz Gunes
Chapter 2: Kurdish Public Opinion in Turkey: Cultural and Political Demands of the ‘Kurdish Street’
Ekrem Karakoc and Ege Ozen
Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Turkey’s Kurdish Question
Veli Yadirgi
Chapter 4: The Evolution of Rojava: Tensions between Democratic Confederalism and State-Building in Northern Syria
Sean Lee
Chapter 5: Non-State Actors and Governance: Kurdish Autonomy in Syria
Massoud Dryaz
Chapter 6: Continuity and Change in Syrian Kurdistan: The Rojava Revolution and Beyond
Ozum Yesiltas
Chapter 7: Evolution of Kurdish-led Administration in Syria
Wladimir Wilgenburg
Chapter 8: The Kurdish Question in Iraq: An Overview
Peshawa A. Muhammed
Chapter 9: Making Sense of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Civil War of the 1990’s: Fingers to Claw Communities, Fingers to Break each Other
Alan M. Noory
Chapter 10: A Contemporary Political History of the Kurds in Iran
Ahmad Hamza
Chapter 11: Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and the Kurdish Resistance in Iran
Carol Prunhuber
Chapter 12: Imagining Kurdistan from Abroad: Diaspora Identity, Collective Memory and Artistic Expression
Vera Eccarius-Kelly
Chapter 13: Diasporic Narratives of Assimilation and Resistance
Barzoo Eliassi
Chapter 14: Return Mobilities of Highly Skilled Young British-Kurdish People to Kurdistan
Janroj Keles
