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Kurdish Studies
Kurdish Studies January 7, 2021

Mapping Kurdistan

Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism

Zeynep N. Kaya

Hosted by Dilan Okcuoglu
Since the early twentieth-century, Kurds have challenged the borders and national identities of the states they inhabit. Nowhere is this more evident than in their promotion of the 'Map of …

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Middle Eastern Studies January 14, 2020

City of Black Gold

Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk

Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Hosted by Joshua Donovan
In her debut book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), Arbella Bet-Shlimon explores the vibrant and often troubled history of …
National Security April 22, 2019

Break all the Borders

Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East

Ariel I. Ahram

Hosted by Beth Windisch
Since 2011, civil wars and state failure have wracked the Arab world, underlying the misalignment between national identity and political borders. In Break all the Borders: Separatism and the Reshaping …
Anthropology October 5, 2018

Rojava

Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds

Thomas Schmidinger

Hosted by Jeffrey Bristol
Thomas Schmidinger's Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria’s Kurds (Pluto Press, 2018) is an exploration of the history and present of Syrian Kurdistan. It is an excellent introduction …
World Affairs October 29, 2015

Open Wounds

Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide

Vicken Cheterian

Hosted by Christian Petersen
The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions about a historical tragedy that the leaders of the Turkish Republic would like people to forget: the …