Kurdish Studies

2013 - 2021

Current editor(s): Cruz García Lirios

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Volume 5, issue 2, 2017

Editorial pp. 105-106

Djene Rhys Bajalan and Welat Zeydanlioglu

The role of collective identifications in family processes of post-trauma reconstruction: An exploratory study with Kurdish refugee families and their diasporic community pp. 107-133

Ruth Kevers, Peter Rober and Lucia De Haene

A spatial perspective on political group formation in Turkey after the 1971 coup: The Kurdistan Workers Party of Turkey (PKK) pp. 134-156

Joost Jongerden

Kurds in the USSR, 1917-1956 pp. 157-171

Jonathan Otto Pohl

In Memoriam: Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017) pp. 172-186

Amir Sharifi

Kurdish Studies in Russian Language: 1917-2017 pp. 187-198

Ibrahim Sirkeci and Andrej Přívara

On the independence referendum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and disputed territories in 2017 pp. 199-214

Bill Park, Joost Jongerden, Francis Owtram and Akiko Yoshioka

Book Reviews pp. 215-226

Kurdish Studies

Volume 5, issue 1, 2017

On the frontiers of empire: Culture and power in early modern “Iranian” Kurdistan pp. 1-10

Djene Rhys Bajalan

What's old is new again: A study of sources in the Šarafnāma of Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (1005-7/1596-99) pp. 11-31

Sacha Alsancakli

The literary legacy of the Ardalans pp. 32-55

Farangis Ghaderi

History of Ardalānids (1590-1810) by Sharaf al-Dīn bin Shams al-Dīn pp. 56-79

Sara Zandi Karimi

Review: Islam and politics in Iranian Kurdistan at a time of revolution: the life of Ahmad Moftizadeh pp. 80-87

Martin van Bruinessen

Book Reviews pp. 88-103

Cengiz Gunes, Liza Mügge, Kevin Smets, Joost Jongerden, Ergin Öpengin and Ebubekir Isik

Volume 4, issue 2, 2016

Editorial pp. 119-121

Martin van Bruinessen

Introduction to the special issue: Yezidism and Yezidi Studies in the early 21st century pp. 122-130

Philip Kreyenbroek and Khanna Omarkhali

The displacement of the Yezidis after the rise of ISIS in Northern Iraq pp. 131-147

Irene Dulz

Transformations in the Yezidi tradition after the ISIS attacks. An interview with Ilhan Kizilhan pp. 148-154

Khanna Omarkhali

Hola Hola Tawusi Melek, Hola Hola Şehidêt Şingalê: Persecution and the Development of Yezidi Ritual Life pp. 155-175

Eszter Spat

The gendering of victimhood: Western media and the Sinjar genocide pp. 176-196

Veronica Buffon and Christine Allison

Yezidi Spirits? On the question of Yezidi beliefs: A review article pp. 197-207

Philip Kreyenbroek and Khanna Omarkhali

Book Reviews pp. 208-223

Kurdish Studies

Volume 4, issue 1, 2016

Editorial pp. 1-4

Martin van Bruinessen

Islamic revivalism and Kurdish nationalism in Sheikh Ubeydullah’s poetic oeuvre pp. 3-23

Kamal Soleimani

Language shift among Kurds in Turkey: A spatial and demographic analysis pp. 25-50

Sinan Zeyneloğlu, Ibrahim Sirkeci and Yaprak Civelek

Mapping action and identity in the Kobani crisis response pp. 51-77

Thomas McGee

In search of moral imagination that tells us “who the Kurds are”: Toward a new theoretical approach to modern Kurdish literature pp. 78-93

Joanna Bocheńska

Making sense: research as active engagement pp. 94-104

Joost Jongerden

Book Reviews pp. 105-118

Kurdish Studies

Volume 3, issue 2, 2015

Editorial pp. 125-127

Martin van Bruinessen

(In)visible spaces and tactics of transnational engagement: A multi-dimensional approach to the Kurdish diaspora (Meydanên (ne)diyar û rêbazên çalakvaniya siyasî ya fera-neteweyî: Nirxandineke pir-rehendî li ser diyasporaya kurd) pp. 128-150

Bahar Baser, Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson and Mari Toivanen

Radical political participation and the internal Kurdish diaspora in Turkey (Beşdariya siyasî ya radîkal û diyasporaya kurdî ya navxweyî li Tirkiyeyê) pp. 151-171

Francis O’Connor

The imaginary Kurdish museum: Ordinary Kurds, narrative nationalisms and collective memory (Mûzexaneya xeyalî ya kurdî: Kurdên asayî, netewegeriyên dastanî û bîra cemawerî) pp. 172-191

Vera Eccarius-Kelly

Filming family and negotiating return in making Haraka Baraka: Movement is a blessing (فیلم گرتن له بنە ماڵە و باس کردن لە گە ڕانەوە لە کاتی دە رهێنانی "حەرە کە بەرەکە:جووڵانەوە خێروبهرهكهته" (Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing)) pp. 192-208

Lana Askari

Reflections on the Kurdish diaspora: An interview with Dr Kendal Nezan pp. 209-216

Mari Toivanen

Book Reviews pp. 217-232

Kurdish Studies

Volume 3, issue 1, 2015

Editorial pp. 1-2

Welat Zeydanlioglu and Ibrahim Sirkeci

The challenges of writing Kurdish literary history: Representation, classification, periodisation (Astengên li ber nivîsîna tarîxa edebiyata kurdî: Pêşkeşkirin, tesnîfkirin, û qonaxbendî) pp. 3-25

Farangis Ghaderi

The Ideological Transformation of the PKK regarding the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey (Guherîna îdeolojîk di PKKyê de û aboriya siyasî ya herêma kurdî li Tirkiyeyê) pp. 26-46

Güllistan Yarkın

‘The Palestinian Dream’ in the Kurdish context (“Xewna Felestînê” li meydana kurdî) pp. 47-63

Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya

The Kurds in the changing political map of the Middle East (Kurd di xerîteya siyasî ya Rojhilata Navîn a di guherînê de) pp. 64-81

Michael M. Gunter

Review: Alevis in Turkey pp. 82-90

Esin Çalışkan

Obituary: Professor Mirella Galletti Professor Mirella Galletti, a great friend of the Kurds, died in Rome on 4 September 2012. Mirella’s work is of inestimable value to the field of Kurdish Studies and her publications cover not only the history, society and traditions of the Kurds, but also the Christian minorities of the Middle East, particularly those of Iraq and Kurdistan pp. 91-98

Joyce Blau

Book Reviews pp. 99-123

Kurdish Studies

Volume 2, issue 2, 2014

Editorial pp. 97-98

Martin van Bruinessen

Introduction to Special Issue - Kurdish: A critical research overview (Awirvedaneke rexneyî li lêkolînên li ser zimanê kurdî) pp. 99-122

Geoffrey Haig and Ergin Öpengin

On the linguistic history of Kurdish (Li ser tarîxa zimannasî ya zimanê kurdî) pp. 123-142

Thomas Jugel

Regional variation in Kurmanji: A preliminary classification of dialects (Cihêrengiya zimanî ya navxweyî di kurmanciyê de: tesnîfeke seretayî ya zaravayan) pp. 143-176

Ergin Öpengin and Geoffrey Haig

Badini Kurdish modal particles dê and da: procedural semantics and language variation (Pirtikên raweyî yên dê û da di kurdiya badînî de: semantîka prosedûrî û cudatiyên zimanî ya navxweyî) pp. 177-200

Christoph Unger

Diversity in convergence: Kurdish and Aramaic variation entangled (Cihêrengî di konverjansê de: Lêk-aliyana cudatiyên navxweyî yên kurdî û ara-miyê) pp. 201-224

Paul M. Noorlander

Book reviews pp. 225-246

Kurdish Studies

Volume 2, issue 1, 2014

Editorial pp. 1-3

Martin van Bruinessen

The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and 2010s (Kurd û Rewşa Tund ya Rojhilata Navîn: 1980yan û 2010an) pp. 4-13

Hamit Bozarslan

Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari? (Gelo Helebçe xala werçerxê bû bo helbestvan Bulend el-Heyderî?) pp. 14-33

Hilla Peled-Shapira

Dengbêjs on borderlands: Borders and the state as seen through the eyes of Kurdish singer-poets (دەنگبێژانی سەرسنوور. سنوور و وڵات لە ڕوانگە ی شاعیر و گۆرانیبێژی کوردەوە) pp. 34-60

Wendelmoet Hamelink and Hanifi Barış

Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and statelessness: An interview with Craig Calhoun pp. 61-74

Barzoo Eliassi

Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and statelessness: An interview with Craig Calhoun pp. 75-79

Khanna Omarkhali

Book reviews pp. 80-95

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