Kurdish Identity: Human Rights and Political Status

Kurdish Identity brings together Kurdish specialists from academic, diplomatic, human-rights, and political worlds to provide historical and contemporary analyses, global and regional perspectives, and some original research, all largely, and thankfully, devoid of lofty theory and pretentious prose....

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Published in:International journal of Middle East studies 2009, Vol.41 (3), p.532-533
Main Author: Zanger, Maggy
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Diplomatic & consular services
Human rights
Identity
Kurdish people
Kurds
Language culture relationship
Middle East
National identity
Nationalism
Political conditions
Politics
Self concept
Two Contemporary Concerns: Catholics and Kurds
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Summary:Kurdish Identity brings together Kurdish specialists from academic, diplomatic, human-rights, and political worlds to provide historical and contemporary analyses, global and regional perspectives, and some original research, all largely, and thankfully, devoid of lofty theory and pretentious prose. [...]the book is largely unable to address the numerous questions concerning Kurdish identity that have mushroomed since the end of the Iraqi Ba[MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING]th regime, which has forever altered the position of the Kurds vis-à-vis their Arab, Turkish, and Persian neighbors. The Kurdish intelligentsia was therefore poised to transfer those sentiments into a mass movement when central authority collapsed in 1979: "What nationalist intelligentsia had to achieve by much hard groundwork in other historical eras and other countries was achieved for the Kurdish nationalists by the sheer force of rapid economic and social changes resulting from the land reform program of the 1960s" (p. 227).
ISSN:0020-7438
1471-6380
DOI:10.1017/S0020743809091454