The Kurdish Question Revisited

The Kurds, Once Marginal In The Study Of The Middle East And Secondary In Its International Relations, Have Moved To Centre Stage In Recent Years. In Turkey, Where The Kurdish Question Is An Issue Of National Significance, And In Iraq, Where The Gains Made By The Kurdistan Regional Government Have Allowed It To Impose Its Authority, Moves Are Afoot To Solve 'the Kurdish Question' Once And For All. The Picture Is Less Positive In Syria, Where The Kurds Have Borne The Brunt Of The Islamic State's Onslaught, And In Iran, Where They Struggle To Express Their Cultural Distinctiveness And Suffer Disproportionately At The Hands Of The Islamic Republic's Security Apparatus. Yet The Situations In Both Countries Remain In Flux, Affected By Developments In Iraq And Turkey In A Manner That Suggests We May Have To Revise The Notion Of The Kurds Being Forever Divided By The Boundaries Of The Middle East's And Subsumed Into The State Projects Of Other Nations. The Contributors To The Kurdish Question Revisited Offer Insights Into How This Once Seemingly Intractable, Immutable Phenomenon Is Being Transformed Amid The New Political Realities Of The Middle East. -- Publisher's Description Introduction / Gareth Stansfield And Mohammed Shareef -- Part I. Reflections On Debates Of Identity And Nation. New Perspectives On Writing The History Of The Kurds In Iraq, Syria And Turkey : A History And State Of The Art Assessment / Jordi Tejel -- Social Movement Theory And Political Mobilization In Kurdistan / David Romano -- Religion Among The Kurds : Between Naqshbandi Sufism And Is Salafism / Michiel Leezenberg -- Politics Of Memory : Kurdish Ethnic Identity And The Role Of Collective Forgetting / Hakan Özoǧlu -- Being In Time : The Kurdish Movement And Universal Quests / Hamit Bozarslan -- Separated But Connected : The Synergic Effects In The Kurdistan Sub-system / Ofra Bengio -- Fact And Fiction In Modern Kurdish Narrative Discourse / Hashem Ahmadzadeh -- Political And Everyday Religion In Kurdistan / Diane King -- The Shifting Borders Of Conflict, Difference, And Oppression : Kurdish Folklore Revisited / Christine Allison -- Kurdish Music In Armenia : The Music Of The Yezidis / Nahro Zagros -- Part Ii. The Kurdish Question In The Ottoman Empire And Turkey. The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion Of 1880 / Sabri Ateş -- Journalism Beyond Borders : The Bedirkhans And The First Kurdish Gazette, 1898-1902 / Janet Klein -- Mobilization Of Kurds In Turkey During The 1980s And The 1990s / Cengiz Gunes -- Turkey's Kurdish Problems, The Kurds' Turkish Problems / Bill Park -- The Transformation Of Turkey's Kurdish Question / Henri Barkey -- Contrasting Turkish Paradigms Toward The Volatile Kurdish Question : Domestic And Foreign Considerations / Michael M. Gunter -- The Kurdistan Workers' Party (pkk) : Radical Democracy And The Right To Self-determination Beyond The Nation-state / Joost Jongerden -- The Pkk, The Kurdish Movement, And The Emergence Of Kurdish Cultural Policies In Turkey / Clémence Scalbert-yücel -- Part Iii. The Kurdish Question And Syria. The Curious Question Of The Pyd-pkk Relationship / Zeynep Kaya And Robert Lowe -- Kurdish Political Parties And The Syrian Uprising / Harriet Allsopp -- Part Iv. The Kurdish Question And Iran. The Kurdish Conundrum And The Islamic Republic Of Iran, 1979-2003 / Nader Entessar -- Identities And Ethnic Hierarchy : The Kurdish Question Revisited In Iran / Olivier Grojean -- Fellow Aryans And Muslim Brothers : Iranian Narratives On The Kurds / Walter Posch -- Part V. The Kurdish Question And Iraq. The Kurdish Experience In Post-saddam Iraq / Gareth Stansfield -- Arabization As Genocide : The Case Of The Disputed Territories Of Iraq / Mohammed Ihsan -- The Development Of The Kurdistan Region Of Iraq's Higher Education Sector : A Gender Perspective / Katherine Ranharter -- Water And Development In The Iraqi Kurdistan / Greg Shapland -- Peace Education In The Kurdistan Region Of Iraq : Evolution And Limitations / Kelsey Shanks -- The Iraqi Kurdish Response To The Islamic State : Political Leverage In Times Of Crisis / Benjamin Isakhan -- In Pursuit Of Friends : The Kurdistan Region Of Iraq's Foreign Affairs And Diplomacy / Renad Mansour -- A Paradigm Shift In Us-kurdistan Region Of Iraq Relations Post-2014 : The Evolution To A Strategic Partnership / Mohammed Shareef -- Re-claiming Halabja / Nicole F. Watts -- Media, Political Culture, And The Shadows Of The Militia War In Iraqi Kurdistan / Andrea Fischer-tahir -- Experiences Of Honor-based Violence, And Moving Toward Action In Iraqi Kurdistan / Nazand Begikhani And Gill Hague -- The Kurdistan Region Of Iraq And The Federal Constitution : A Perimeter Plinth Of State Territorial Integrity Or A Stepping Stone To Secession? / Francis Owtram. Edited By Gareth Stansfield And Mohammed Shareef. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 651-697).