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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 …