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About this book
The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and highlands in what is now Southeast Turkey, Northeast Syria, Northern Iraq, northwest Iran and Southwest Armenia, they are the largest stateless people in the world. Denied a national identity, their culture and language have been banned or suppressed throughout the centuries and theirs is a story of resistance and survival.
This book offers a contemporary overview and critical analysis of the Kurds quest for national identity and statehood from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the modern day. Kurdish nationalism has taken many forms and had to endure periods of rebellion, acceptance, oppression and ethnic cleansing. Mandana Hendessi outlines the contours of the political struggle and military conflict that continue to shape the lives of a people that occupy one of the most contested regions in the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction
- 1. Kurdish nationalism: the beginnings
- 2. From rebellion to political manifestos: Kurdish nationalism in twentieth-century Iran and Iraq
- 3. Kurdish nationalism in twentieth-century Turkey and Syria
- 4. The Kurdish women’s movement
- 5. Beyond the mountains: transnationalizing the Kurdish struggle for land and national identity
- 6. Kurdish statehood: Kurdish Regional Government, Iraq
- 7. Kurdish statehood: Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
- Conclusion: Kurdish autonomy – a regional tinderbox?
- Chronology
- Further Reading
- References
- Index