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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Self-Immolation in South Asia: Epidemiology, Motives, and Sociocultural Contexts. [PDF]
Public Health ChallABSTRACT Self‐immolation is a neglected public health and social problem in South Asia. This review focuses on epidemiological patterns, sociodemographic characteristics, motives, and psychosocial correlates associated with self‐immolation in South Asian countries.
Arafat SMY, Hossain S, Kar SK.
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Ruins, Ruination, and Counter-Memory in Kurdish Women’s Art [PDF]
, 2022 This article focuses on the contemporary visual art practices by Kurdish female artists as strategies of counter-memory. The Kurdish community in Turkey has been facing ongoing violence, with its (cultural) heritage, memory, and archives constantly under
Özgen, A.
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Kurdish women’s struggles with gender equality: from ideology to practice [PDF]
, 2021 The article explores the relationship between theory and practice in terms of gender-based equality and justice within both the armed units and the political–legal movement linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey and transnationally.
Al-Ali, Nadje, Tas, Latif
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Laboratory Analysis of Fecal <i>Lactobacillus</i> Strains and pH in Tobacco Smokers: A Comparative Study From a Developing Country. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims Tobacco smoking is a major cause of preventable mortality globally, disproportionately impacting developing countries. While its systemic health effects are well‐known, the influence of tobacco on gut microbiota—especially beneficial Lactobacillus species—remains poorly explored in resource‐limited settings.
Shabibi A +4 more
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Exceptional Inclusion: Understanding the PKK’s Gender Policy [PDF]
, 2023 The PKK’s gender policy, which includes maintaining a fighting force that is 40% female and the promotion of women’s liberation as a key component of its political platform, makes the PKK an outlier among both Kurdish nationalist groups and leftist armed
Szekely, Ora
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Defying Rules. Defying Gender?: Women’s Resistance to Islamic State [PDF]
, 2023 Through disproportionate restrictions placed on women’s movement and visualization within its “caliphate”, the Islamic State (IS) group enforced its policies of female domesticity and submission.
Vale, Gina, Gina Vale
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Kurdish women's battle continues against state and patriarchy, says first female co-mayor of Diyarbakir. Interview [PDF]
, 2016 The prominence of Kurdish women in Rojava (western Kurdistan/northern Syria) inspired us initially to understand the historical role of women in the Kurdish political movement.
Tas, Latif (with Nadje Al-Ali)
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The subversive potential of witchcraft: A reflection on Federici's self-reproducing movements [PDF]
, 2021 This is a theoretical contribution that draws on the work of Silvia Federici, and particularly her book, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation to discuss crises, struggles over social reproduction, and feminist activist ...
Maria Daskalaki, Daskalaki, Maria
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Between Silence and Resistance: Kurdish Women in Colonial Turkish Prison Diyarbakir Military Prison 1980-1984 [PDF]
, 2021 This study traces Kurdish women’s contestation of the carceral colonial Turkish State and challenges us to re-examine Kurdish women as historical subjects. It centres on the stories of Kurdish women who were incarcerated in the Diyarbakir Military Prison
Sarikaya, Berivan Kutlay
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