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Trauma and perceived social rejection among Yazidi women and girls who survived enslavement and genocide [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2018 Background In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a terrorist organization, attacked the Yazidi’s ancestral homeland in northwestern Iraq.
Hawkar Ibrahim +4 more
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On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics. [PDF]
BioethicsABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Salaymeh M, Shahvisi A, Jannesari S.
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Sleep Disturbances Among Yazidi Survivors of the ISIS Genocide: Epidemiology, Neuropsychology, and Culturally Sensitive Interventions. [PDF]
Brain BehavThe figure presents an integrative model of sleep disturbances among Yazidi survivors of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS). Genocide‐related trauma, including mass violence, sexual violence, displacement, and historical trauma, is associated with sustained neurobiological dysregulation, including hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal ...
Kizilhan JI, Ag Z, Ahmed QA, Avidan AY.
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciThis essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Atran S.
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Coverage of the situation of Western Armenians in Egyptian-Armenian press (1899-1904)
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2023 The developing relations of production caused a great revival in the economic life of Egypt starting with the second half of the 19th century. Armenians who migrated to Egypt took an active part in the development of the country's economic and cultural ...
Myasnik Esoyan
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پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردیKakay Fallah and Tawfiq Zayyad, prominent poets of the 20th century, lived under the oppressive regimes of Ba’ath and Zionist powers, bearing witness to atrocities against their Kurdish and Arab communities.
Esmaeil Barwasi
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 219-226, September 2026.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 363-372, September 2026.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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