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The Kurdish Issue in Turkish-Syrian Relations in the Context of the Syrian Crisis

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2019
The article is devoted to the Kurdish issue in the context of bilateral relations between Turkey and Syria after the start of the 2011 Syrian crisis. Particular attention is paid to the role of the Kurdish issue in the Turkish-Syrian relations.
Anna Garnukovna Gevorgyan
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Nationalism and Prosody in Kurdish Poetry

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2020
Addressing the impact of political events on changes in metrical feet is a new approach applied in this paper. Hasanpour and Vali’s viewpoints on the history of Kurdish nationalism, the relationship between literary texts and political events, and ...
Ehsan Mardookh Rohani
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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A comparative study of visual schemas of Persian and Kurdish children's poems

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی
One of the semantic approaches is pictorial design. In this way, human experiences from the surrounding world create conceptual constructions in his mind that can be transferred to the level of language, hence, tangible and embodied experiences within ...
Forozan bhramzadeh
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
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The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
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The Core of Resistance: Recognising Intersectional Struggle in the Kurdish Women’s Movement

Contexto Internacional
The 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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“An ox sitting on One's chest”: Experiences and understandings of common mental health conditions of Turkish‐speaking immigrants with lived experience in the UK

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Exploring how Turkish‐speaking immigrants understand and express common mental health conditions is crucial, as discrepancies in this area have real‐life consequences for treatment. Some key concepts to examine within this are the long‐standing belief that Turkish‐speaking immigrants somatise emotional difficulties and cannot ...
Ayse Akan, Gill Green, Frances Blumenfeld, Danny Taggart, Susan McPherson   +4 more
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Sheikh Noori Shekh Salih-the leading and the modernist; from classicism to Romanticism

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2019
The research titled as Sheikh Noori Shekh Salih-the leading and the modernist; from classicism to Romanticism consists of two parts; the first part is about the method of renewal of poetry in the foreign literature and Kurdish literature, while the ...
Saman Ezaddin Saadoon
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