Kurdish Studies

2013 - 2021

Current editor(s): Cruz García Lirios

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Volume 9, issue 2, 2021

Editorial pp. 153-154

Sacha Alsancakli

An Intellectual on a Mission: Abdullah Jalal Fatah, his dissertation on Kurdish culture (1978) and heritage making inspired by Józef Chałasiński and Polish academia pp. 155-173

Joanna Bocheńska and Karwan Fatah-Black

Communist Europe and the Kurdish Question During the Cold War (1940s 1980s) pp. 175-187

Etienne Forestier-Peyrat

Rethinking State-Non-state Alliances: A Theoretical Analysis of the U.S. Kurdish Relationship pp. 189-204

Ozum Yesiltas

Islamic Universalism or Ethno-nationalism? Exploring identity salience within a Kurdish migrant community in Britain pp. 205-221

Serena Hussain

OBITUARY: In Memory of Kadri Yıldırım (Qedrî Yildirim)(1959 – 2021) pp. 223-232

Mehmet Kurt

In memoriam Kamal Mazhar Ahmad (1937-2021), doyen of Kurdish historians pp. 233-241

Martin van Bruinessen

The Kurds. Legend of the East pp. 243-245

Martin van Bruinessen

The Forgotten Years of Kurdish Nationalism in Iran pp. 247-250

Martin van Bruinessen

Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity pp. 251-253

Cemre Aydoğan

Volume 9, issue 1, 2021

Editorial: Mass Violence and the Kurds: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 1-9

Uğur Ümit Üngör and Ayhan Işık

The State and Violence in Kurdistan: A Conceptual Framework pp. 11-36

Naif Bezwan

‘Keep your mouth shut in the day and your door shut at night.’ Intra-Kurdish Violence in the Shadow of the State: The case of Hizbullah in Kurdistan of Turkey pp. 37-57

Adnan Çelik

The Armenian Massacre of 1895 in Bitlis Town pp. 59-76

Mehmet Polatel

Memory as experience in times of perpetual violence: the challenge of Saturday Mothers vis-à-vis cultural aphasia pp. 77-95

Özgür Sevgi Göral

Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab pp. 97-111

Marlene Schäfers

In memoriam: Izzaddin Mustafa Rasul (1934-2019), Iraqi Kurdish man of letters and Soviet-trained scholar pp. 113-128

Nodar Mossaki

Book Reviews pp. 129-152

Marlene Schäfers

Volume 8, issue 2, 2020

Editorial pp. 229-231

Marlene Schäfers

Kurds and their history: An interview with David McDowall pp. 233-244

Metin Atmaca

Socio-spatial dynamics of contentious politics: A case of urban warfare in the Kurdish region of Turkey pp. 245-270

Ronay Bakan

Penalisation of Kurdish children under the Turkish Anti-Terror Law: Abandonment, sovereignty and lawfare pp. 271-295

Hazal Hürman

Peace committees, platforms and the political ordering of society: Doing justice in the Federation of Northern and Eastern Syria (NES) pp. 297-312

Michael Knapp and Joost Jongerden

Making the revolution intelligible, rendering political imaginations unthinkable: A postcolonial reading of British and American media representations of Rojava pp. 313-338

Cihan Erdost Akin

Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq pp. 339-369

David Romano

Review article: Kurds, Zazas and Alevis pp. 371-381

Martin van Bruinessen

Zeki Sarigil, Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam pp. 382-384

Martin van Bruinessen

Volume 8, issue 1, 2020

Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity pp. 1-6

Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins and Suavi Aydin

Politics and Identity in Alevi Kurds: An interview with Martin van Bruinessen pp. 7-15

Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins and Suavi Aydin

A Survey of the Roots and History of Kurdish Alevism: What are the Divergences and Convergences between Kurdish Alevi Groups in Turkey? pp. 17-42

Suavi Aydin

Reflections on the 19th Century Missionary Reports as Sources for the History of the (Kurdish) Kizilbash pp. 43-70

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump

Political Representation of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: Historical Trends and Main Transformations pp. 71-90

Cengiz Gunes

The Struggle to Unite Diaspora Alevis and the Working Class: Alevism in the Kavga/Kervan Magazine pp. 91-112

Tuncay Bilecen

HOME / ARCHIVES / VOL. 8 NO. 1 (2020): SPECIAL ISSUE: ALEVI KURDS: HISTORY, POLITICS AND IDENTITY / Special Issue Articles Diasporic Homeland, Rise of Identity and New Traditionalism: The Case of the British Alevi Festival pp. 113-132

Cemal Salman

Language Attitudes and Religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK pp. 133-161

Birgul Yilmaz

“Aspirational Capital” and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parents’ Involvement with Their Children’s Education in the UK pp. 163-184

Celia Jenkins

Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London pp. 185-208

Umit Cetin

Book Reviews pp. 209-228

Martin van Bruinessen, Michael M. Gunter, Joost Jongerden, Michiel Leezenberg and Stanley Thangaraj

Volume 7, issue 2, 2019

Editorial pp. 2

Marlene Schäfers

Book Reviews pp. 10

David Romano, Guney Yildiz and Michiel Leezenberg

British travellers, the Kurds, and Kurdistan: A brief literary history,c. 1520-1680Editorial pp. 22

Gerald Martin Maclean

Crossborder Kurdish Solidarity: An Endangered Aspect of Kurdishness pp. 26

Allan Hassaniyan

Rekindling the Flame: Zoroastrianism in Iraqi Kurdistan pp. 28

Samme Dick

Volume 7, issue 1, 2019

Editorial pp. 1-3

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Book Reviews pp. 18

Metin Atmaca, Joost Jongerden, Sabri Ateş, Francis O’Connor and Marouf Cabi

Language, Kingship, and Nation: The Ambiguous Politics of Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn pp. 20

Michiel Leezenberg

Kurdish Responses to Imperial Decline: The Kurdish Movement and the End of Ottoman Rule in the Balkans (1878 to 1913) pp. 21

Djene Rhys Bajalan

Learning from defeat: Development and contestation of the “new paradigm” within Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) pp. 21

Joost Jongerden

Kurdish fiction: From writing as resistance to aestheticised commitment pp. 26

Kaveh Ghobadi

Volume 6, issue 2, 2018

Editorial pp. 169-170

Djene Rhys Bajalan and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu

Historiography and language in 17th-century Ottoman Kurdistan: A study of two Turkish translations of the Sharafnāma (Dîroknivîsî û ziman di Kurdistana Osmanî ya sedsala 17an de: Vekolînek li ser du wergerên tirkî yên Şerefnameyê) pp. 171-196

Sacha Alsancakli

The shaky foundations of the 1926 annexation of Southern Kurdistan to Iraq (Bingehên lawaz ên îlhaqa Kurdistana başûr bi ser Iraqê ve li sala 1926an) pp. 197-216

Aram Rafaat

TRANSLATION- The English-Turkish Conflict of Mosul (Dubendiya Îngilîz û Tirkan li ser Mûsilê) pp. 217-241

Joachim v. Elbe and Ethem Coban

OBITUARY- In memoriam: Faleh Abdul Jabar (1946-2018) (Ji bo bîreweriya Faleh Abdul Cebar (1946-2018)) pp. 242-245

Michiel Leezenberg

Book Reviews pp. 246-263

Kurdish Studies

Volume 6, issue 1, 2018

Editorial pp. 1-3

Martin van Bruinessen

Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective (Bîrdoza jin û şer li Kurdistanê. Perspektîveke femînîst û rexnegirî) pp. 5-30

Nazand Begikhani, Wendelmoet Hamelink and Nerina Weiss

The representation of post-conflict gender violence in Iraqi Kurdish novelistic discourse in Bahdinan (Temsîla şideta cinsî ya piştî şerî di gotara edebî ya kurdên Iraqê de li herêma Behdînan) pp. 31-57

Lolav M. Hassan Alhamid

Reading and feeling gender in perpetrator graffiti and photography in Turkey (Xwendin û hiskirina cinsiyetê di grafîtî û wêneyên bikeran de li Tirkiyeyê) pp. 59-83

Beja Protner

Saving the Survivors: Yezidi Women, Islamic State and the German Admissions Program (Xelaskirina yên saxmayî. Jinên êzidî, Dewleta Îslamî û bernameya Almanyayê ya qebûlê) pp. 85-109

Thomas McGee

Building brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, the gender of nationhood, and the War on Terror (Çêkirina Marka Kurdistanê: Helly Luv, cinsiyeta netewetiyê, û Şerê li Dijî Terorê) pp. 111-132

Nicholas Sean Glastonbury

Mother-Activism before the European Court of Human Rights: Gender sensitivity towards Kurdish mothers and wives in enforced disappearances cases (Çalakiyên dayikan li ber Dadgeha Mafên Mirovan a Ewropayê: Hesasiyeta cinsiyetê beramber dayik û jinên kurd di de'wayên bêserûşûnkirinan de) pp. 133-153

Maja Davidovic

Book Reviews pp. 155-167

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