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Hydro‐Insurgency: Weaponization of Water Resources and Infrastructure in Northeast Syria

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 924-938, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic weaponization of water resources by Turkey‐backed armed groups in Northeast Syria (NES) within the broader context of the Syrian civil war. As the conflict evolved, water infrastructure—dams, rivers, and irrigation systems—became central to warfare, governance, and foreign agendas. The article introduces the
Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai
wiley   +1 more source

Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Researchers have identified a host of factors that influence immigrant men’s understanding of and commitment to health, but overall the scholarship is still unsettled, in large part because the experiences of immigrant groups are so varied. In this paper,
Linders, Annulla, Othman, Jihad K.
core   +2 more sources

Towards an Understanding of Mukriyani Style of Poetry

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2016
Mukriyani style of poetry has developed from a process of activating a number of linguistic and literary potentials that, since the time of Haji Qadir Koyi, have remained hidden in Kurdish literature–in Central Kurmanci dialect.
Rahbar Mahmouzadeh
doaj  

How to utilise students' cultural and linguistic experiences to promote language learning : looking beyond the school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article will first give an overview of multicultural, multilingual Britain and place it within the context of community literacy. It will then discuss education reforms and policies that have aimed to place multicultural and multiple literacy at ...
Issa, Tözün
core   +4 more sources

Bayt and Its Features in Kurdish Folk Literature

open access: yes, 2020
Kürt edebiyatında en zengin bölüm folklor ve halk edebiyatıdır. Halk edebiyatı halka ait kabul edilir ve halk arasında oldukça yaygındır. Halk edebiyatında Kürtçe (Kurmanci) beyt, destan ya da manzum hikâyelerin önemli bir ağırlığı bulunmaktadır. Destan en eski edebi türlerden biridir. Çok eski dönemlerde ortaya konulmuş olup anonimdir.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Body and the Landscape. Metaphorical Strategies in the Lexicon of the Iranian Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Even if at a small extent, the speakers of a language concur to change their lexicon, which they have inherited as a whole. They are driven to do that by the necessity of naming something new or optimizing the onomasiological salience of already existing
Filippone, Ela
core  

International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces : Their Evolution, Significance, and Future Prospects [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
From International Migration to Transnational Social Spaces? For the viewers of the Turkish government channel "TRT Avraysa" on German cable TV it is obvious that some children of Turkish immigrants in Germany have embarked upon successful musical ...
Faist, Thomas
core  

Sport and multiculturalism : an European perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Opening conference of the academic course 2005/06 of the Olympic Studies Centre (CEO-UAB), given by Dr. Ian P. Henry, director of the Institute for Sport and Leisure Policy at Loughborough University (United Kingdom).
Centre d'Estudis Olímpics   +1 more
core  

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