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Abstract The Arab population in the United States is among the most understudied ethnic populations in access to cancer genetics services. Similar to other underserved populations, Arab–Americans face several institutional, social, and cultural barriers that inhibit access to and uptake of cancer genetic counseling and germline genetic testing.
Hiam M. Abdel‐Salam +5 more
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The Kurdish Problem in the Modern Politics of Iraq, Syria and Turkey: a Comprehensive Analysis
Currently, the Middle East is undergoing significant changes, often due to a mixture of global and regional factors. The study is devoted to the current policies in the Middle East, in the ethnogeographic area of Kurdistan.
Ilia N. Vedeneev
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German-Kurdish cultural organizations and the Kurdish Diaspora they represent offer an example of a new type of actor in defining globalization. This paper examines how such organizations act as the lynchpin in transnational networks and how such ...
Hoffman, Drew A.
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Abstract Recent years have seen a resurgence of protest and resistance movements worldwide, reminding deep interconnections between struggles for liberation beyond borders, histories and identities. While activists frequently frame these efforts through the lens of collective liberation, this lens remains absent from mainstream social psychology.
Julia A. Schreiber +2 more
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The current paper utilizes new approaches in intergroup conflict studies to examine the village guard system and its role in the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Turkey.
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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Transnational connections and attachments fostered by migrants’ offspring between different geographical localities have introduced new dynamics that must be considered in determining how identity formation relates to place.
Mari Toivanen, Peter Kivisto
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spotlight europe #2013/02-February 2012. Syria: from rebellion to all-out war [PDF]
The situation in Syria at the beginning of 2013 could hardly be worse. Dead, wounded, refugees, a humanitarian disaster. President Assad is destroying his country and waging war against his own people. Russia and Iran back the regime.
Hanelt, Christian-P., Helberg, Kristin
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Homogeneity in Social Groups of Iraq [PDF]
Homogeneity in Social Groups of Iraqis Jon Gresham, Farouk Saleh, Shara Majid June 2006 With appreciation to the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies for initiating the Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, this paper summarizes findings
Gresham, Dr. Jon +2 more
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The impact of religious diversity on the Kurdish identity within a geopolitical framework
Importance. The Kurds are currently dispersed across four countries (Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq), which are quite negative towards them, trying to suppress expression of their identity.
M. V. Baravi, D. A. Tarasova
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