KURDISH FEMALE FIGHTERS IN SYRIA DURING AND AFTER THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS Emancipation as a Fundamental Motive for the Struggle in Northeastern Syria [PDF]
Obrana a Strategie, 2020 Kurdish female fighters in Syria did not receive attention until after the Battle of Koban. This study analyzes activities during and after the struggle against ISIS, focusing on the ideological motivators that influenced their involvement in the armed ...
Lucia Yar
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Kurdish Female Fighters: the Western Depiction of YPJ Combatants in Rojava
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2019 As this paper is drafted, the YPJ continues to clash against Daesh’s patriarchal impositions. This paper considers three significant questions for its purpose; first, who are Kurdish female fighters and why did they choose to take up arms in an orga ...
Valentina Dean
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The Status of Women in Kurdish Society and the Extent of Their Interactions in Public Realm
SAGE Open, 2022 Apart from the traditional Kurdish gender regime, which originates from the Kurdish tribal structure and which to some extent restricts the visibility of women in society, the status of Kurdish women is considered to be relatively high in comparison with
Hooshmand Alizadeh +3 more
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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2021 The purpose of this article is to discuss the particularities of the women’s movement in Kurdistan and its contribution regarding debates on alternative forms of democracy.
Maria Florencia Guarche Ribeiro +1 more
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European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015 Over the last decade the art of dengbêjî [Kurdish minstrelsy] has come to be understood as the paradigmatic form of Kurdish heritage and dengbêjs concomitantly as the authentic carriers of Kurdish “culture.” This article seeks to outline some of the ...
Marlene Schäfers
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Preference in Strategies of Hiatus Resolutions: An Optimality Theoretic Account of Clitics in Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānVowel hiatus as one of the intolerable phenomena in most world languages is caused after morphological processes like affixation and cliticization. Each language tries to resolve this situation using the resolutions at hand.
Tahereh Jafari, Mehdi Fattahi
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Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, societàIn reference to Social Movement Theories (SMT) and gender studies, this article critically examines Kurdish women mobilizations, focusing on its historical context, ideological framework, strategies, organizational structure, challenges, and ...
Giuseppe Acconcia, Lorenza Perini
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The Core of Resistance: Recognising Intersectional Struggle in the Kurdish Women’s Movement
Contexto InternacionalThe paper addresses the women’s movement in the Northern Syrian region known by Kurds as Rojava, a movement whose central role in building an autonomous political project has its roots in the Kurdish nationalist struggle, specifically that organised by ...
Bruna Ferreira, Vinícius Santiago
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Fundamental Movement Skills of Children of Iranian Ethnicities. [PDF]
Iran J Public Health, 2023 Tahmasebi F +3 more
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Talent has no race, has no face - but it has a skin colour: The 'appropriate femininity' with the case of Kurdish-Swedish Actress Evin Ahmad. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2023 Galip ÖB.
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