Title: The Kurds : nation building in a fragmented homeland /
Authors: Bengio, Ofra.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Kurds Politics and government; Kurds History Autonomy and independence movements; Kurds Autonomy and independence movements; Kurds Politics and government
Contents: Introduction / Ofra Bengio -- Kurdish Nationalism in Comparative Perspective / Benyamin Neuberger -- Historical Setting: The Roots of Modern Kurdish Nationalism / Michael Eppel -- The Dual Relationship between Kurdish Tribalism and Nationalism / Eli Amarilyo -- Kurdish Integration in Iraq: The Paradoxes of Nation Formation and Nation Building / Sherko Kirmanj -- The Evolution of National Identity and the Constitution-Drafting Process in the Kurdistan-Iraq Region / Rachel Kantz Feder -- Forging an Iraqi-Kurdish Identity: A Case Study of Kurdish Novelists Writing in Arabic / Ronen Zeidel -- A Tale of Political Consciousness: The Rise of a Nonviolent Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey / Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak -- The Role of Language in the Evolution of Kurdish National Identity in Turkey / Duygu Atlas -- The Kurdish Women in Turkey: Nation Building and the Struggle for Gender Parity / Heidi Basch-Harod -- The Kurds in Syria: Caught between the Struggle for Civil Equality and the Search for National Identity / Eyal Zisser -- Toward a Generational Rupture within the Kurdish Movement in Syria? / Jordi Tejel -- The Kurds in Iran: The Quest for Identity / Nader Entessar -- The Nostalgic Republic: The Kurdish Republic of 1946 and Its Effect on Kurdish Identity and Nation Building in Iran / Hussein Tahiri -- Conclusion: The Kurdish Momentum / Ofra Bengio -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.