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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 363-372, September 2026.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Iraqi Kurds : Road to Genocide. [PDF]
, 2014 The Kurds of northern Iraq have long been an important and troublesome issue for Iraq's government. For much of the 20th century the Kurds rebelled against Iraq in efforts to gain autonomy.
Miller, Stuart Adam.
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Syria’s Kurds have ended up at the heart of Middle Eastern geopolitics – here’s why [PDF]
, 2017 First paragraph: The Trump administration’s plans for the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) are at last becoming clear.
Matin, Kamran +2 more
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International law: Kurdistan, Kurds and self-determination
, 2022 How does a distinct people become the world’s largest stateless nation? Dispersed but contiguously situated in the Mesopotamian plain and the eastern-Anatolian plateau of the Middle East, the Kurds were granted the right to local autonomy, and then ...
Radpey, Loqman
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Trends. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds, Curds and Whey [PDF]
, 1999 The author discusses the US foreign policy towards the Kurds in Turkey and northern Iraq, and how the perspective varies by geography and national ...
Editor, IBPP
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2018 This study explores how social inclusion and exclusion manifest as a dynamic continuum in the everyday lived realities of irregular migrants. Based on narratives of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, who were eventually deported from Finland, the analysis ...
Sirpa Korhonen, Marko Siitonen
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, 2015 Comprising some thirty to forty million people, the Kurds constitute the fourth largest ethnicity in Western Asia. Divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, Kurdistan is located in the northern part of the Middle East.
Jongerden, Joost +5 more
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Water and counter-hegemony: Kurdish struggle in the Tigris and Euphrates in Turkey
Revista de Paz y Conflictos, 2017 Water issues are often related to general questions of justice. This article discusses Tigris and Euphrates water issues from the point of view of Kurds in Turkey.
Gilberto Conde
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The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq [PDF]
, 2008 The Kurdish-inhabited region of northern Iraq is relatively peaceful and prospering economically, but the Iraqi Kurds' political autonomy and political strength in post-Saddam Iraq is causing backlash in Arab Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. The Iraqi Kurds' ties
Katzman, Kenneth
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, 2018 The Kurds inhabit an area known as Kurdistan, which roughly includes the Zagros and Taurus mountain ranges, and lies along the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Traditionally, the Kurds were nomadic pastoralists or settled agriculturalists, but now mainly live in settled agricultural communities with livestock.
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