years: 2009
- September 27, 2023
- 1:42 am
- September 27, 2023
- 1:35 am
- September 27, 2023
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- September 27, 2023
- 1:19 am
Author(s): Julie Gauthier
Language: English
Abstract / Review
Events in al-Qamishli in the spring of 2004 ended the obscurity of a community that, despite an increasing sense of identity since the 1970s, has not been able to transform its demographic weight (two million citizens, or 10 per cent of Syria’s population) into a substantial political force. Syria’s ‘Kurdish
- September 24, 2023
- 6:55 pm
Author(s): Jordi Tejel
Language: English
Abstract / Review
This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the articulation between tribal, local, regional, and national identities, on one hand, and the