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About Dilan Okcuoglu

Dilan Okcuoglu is post-doctoral fellow at American University.

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Kurdish Studies May 7, 2021

Insurgent Women

Female Combatants in Civil Wars

Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora Szekely

Hosted by Dilan Okcuoglu
Today I talked to Ora Szekely about Insurgent Women: Female Combatants in Civil Wars (Georgetown UP, 2019), which she co-edited with Jessica Trisko Darden and Alexis Henshaw. Why do women go to war in …
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 …