Kurdish Women’s Stories
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Kurdish Women’s Stories

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Kurdish Women’s Stories

About this book

From all four parts of Kurdistan and across the diaspora, Kurdish women from different geographical, political, and educational backgrounds pick up a pen, reflect, and remember. Going beyond exoticising stereotypes and patriarchal representations, Kurdish Women's Stories gives 25 women authorial freedom to write about their own lived experiences. With contributors ranging from 20 to 70 years of age, we hear stories of imprisonment, exile, disappearances of loved ones, gender-based violence, uprisings, feminist activism, and armed resistance, including first-hand accounts of political moments from the 1960s to today. Conceived as part of Culture Project's self-writing program, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the struggle of Kurdish women through their own words. Contributors: Diba Alikhani, Kobra Banehi, Khanda Hameed, Nazanin Hasan, Nafia Aysi Hasso, Deejila Haydar, Zhala Hussein, Ruken Isik, Seveen Jimo, Lanja Khawe, Nahiya Khoshkalam, Hero Kurda, Khanda Rashid Murad, Rozhgar Mustafa, Dashne Nariman, Bayan Nasih, Avan Omar, Nasrin Ramazanali, Mother Sabria, Bayan Saeed, Bayan Salman, Farah Shareefi, Susan Shahab, Simal (Anonymous), Shahla Yarhussein

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Titlepage
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction by Houzan Mahmoud
  7. 1. For the Execution of My Son, I Did Not Cry; There Was Smoke Coming from My Soul
  8. 2. The Last Cigarette Butt before Execution
  9. 3. A Stolen Childhood
  10. 4. Run Away: A Vision from a Woman’s Perspective
  11. 5. There is a Sorrow in My Heart That I Cannot Console
  12. 6. The Prison Speakers Played Islamic Verses
  13. 7. Breaking the Bars of Home and Becoming a Peshmerga
  14. 8. Fighting an Islamic Regime
  15. 9. Fuchsia Flower of My Brother (Nasiri Khoshkalam)
  16. 10. The Explorer Who Watched from a School Window
  17. 11. The Lost Photos of Engagement
  18. 12. My Story
  19. 13. At the Red Prison, They Want Workers
  20. 14. On Art, Womanhood, Being the ‘Other’
  21. 15. In Search of Kurdishness: Our History, My Life
  22. 16. ‘To Be Ruken or Not to Be Buket?’
  23. 17. Life is an Ongoing Struggle
  24. 18. A Woman of the Homeland of Rojava
  25. 19. A Handful of Blood
  26. 20. Except for Poetry, Nothing Else Shields Me
  27. 21. Once Upon a Time in Rojava
  28. 22. A Day at Tel-Rafiat
  29. 23. This is the Story of My Life
  30. 24. I Struggle for Two Types of Liberation: Gender and Human Liberation
  31. 25. What Motivated Me to Write?
  32. Index
  33. About the Editor