Content
October 2021, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 153-154 Editorial
by Sacha Alsancakli - 155-173 An Intellectual on a Mission: Abdullah Jalal Fatah, his dissertation on Kurdish culture (1978) and heritage making inspired by Józef Chałasiński and Polish academia
by Joanna Bocheńska & Karwan Fatah-Black - 175-187 Communist Europe and the Kurdish Question During the Cold War (1940s 1980s)
by Etienne Forestier-Peyrat - 189-204 Rethinking State-Non-state Alliances: A Theoretical Analysis of the U.S. Kurdish Relationship
by Ozum Yesiltas - 205-221 Islamic Universalism or Ethno-nationalism? Exploring identity salience within a Kurdish migrant community in Britain
by Serena Hussain - 223-232 OBITUARY: In Memory of Kadri Yıldırım (Qedrî Yildirim)(1959 – 2021)
by Mehmet Kurt - 233-241 In memoriam Kamal Mazhar Ahmad (1937-2021), doyen of Kurdish historians
by Martin van Bruinessen - 243-245 The Kurds. Legend of the East
by Martin van Bruinessen - 247-250 The Forgotten Years of Kurdish Nationalism in Iran
by Martin van Bruinessen - 251-253 Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity
by Cemre Aydoğan
May 2021, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 1-9 Editorial: Mass Violence and the Kurds: Introduction to the Special Issue
by Uğur Ümit Üngör & Ayhan Işık - 11-36 The State and Violence in Kurdistan: A Conceptual Framework
by Naif Bezwan - 37-57 ‘Keep your mouth shut in the day and your door shut at night.’ Intra-Kurdish Violence in the Shadow of the State: The case of Hizbullah in Kurdistan of Turkey
by Adnan Çelik - 59-76 The Armenian Massacre of 1895 in Bitlis Town
by Mehmet Polatel - 77-95 Memory as experience in times of perpetual violence: the challenge of Saturday Mothers vis-à-vis cultural aphasia
by Özgür Sevgi Göral - 97-111 Feminism, gender and power in Kurdish Studies: An interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab
by Marlene Schäfers - 113-128 In memoriam: Izzaddin Mustafa Rasul (1934-2019), Iraqi Kurdish man of letters and Soviet-trained scholar
by Nodar Mossaki - 129-152 Book Reviews
by Marlene Schäfers
October 2020, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 229-231 Editorial
by Marlene Schäfers - 233-244 Kurds and their history: An interview with David McDowall
by Metin Atmaca - 245-270 Socio-spatial dynamics of contentious politics: A case of urban warfare in the Kurdish region of Turkey
by Ronay Bakan - 271-295 Penalisation of Kurdish children under the Turkish Anti-Terror Law: Abandonment, sovereignty and lawfare
by Hazal Hürman - 297-312 Peace committees, platforms and the political ordering of society: Doing justice in the Federation of Northern and Eastern Syria (NES)
by Michael Knapp & Joost Jongerden - 313-338 Making the revolution intelligible, rendering political imaginations unthinkable: A postcolonial reading of British and American media representations of Rojava
by Cihan Erdost Akin - 339-369 Sub-state actors and foreign policy risk-taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
by David Romano - 371-381 Review article: Kurds, Zazas and Alevis
by Martin van Bruinessen - 382-384 Zeki Sarigil, Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam
by Martin van Bruinessen
May 2020, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 1-6 Editorial: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity
by Umit Cetin & Celia Jenkins & Suavi AYDIN - 7-15 Politics and Identity in Alevi Kurds: An interview with Martin van Bruinessen
by Umit Cetin & Celia Jenkins & Suavi AYDIN - 17-42 A Survey of the Roots and History of Kurdish Alevism: What are the Divergences and Convergences between Kurdish Alevi Groups in Turkey?
by Suavi Aydin - 43-70 Reflections on the 19th Century Missionary Reports as Sources for the History of the (Kurdish) Kizilbash
by Ayfer Karakaya-Stump - 71-90 Political Representation of Alevi Kurds in Turkey: Historical Trends and Main Transformations
by Cengiz Gunes - 91-112 The Struggle to Unite Diaspora Alevis and the Working Class: Alevism in the Kavga/Kervan Magazine
by Tuncay Bilecen - 113-132 HOME / ARCHIVES / VOL. 8 NO. 1 (2020): SPECIAL ISSUE: ALEVI KURDS: HISTORY, POLITICS AND IDENTITY / Special Issue Articles Diasporic Homeland, Rise of Identity and New Traditionalism: The Case of the British Alevi Festival
by Cemal Salman - 133-161 Language Attitudes and Religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK
by Birgul Yilmaz - 163-184 “Aspirational Capital” and Transformations in First-generation Alevi-Kurdish Parents’ Involvement with Their Children’s Education in the UK
by Celia Jenkins - 185-208 Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London
by Umit Cetin - 209-228 Book Reviews
by Martin van Bruinessen & Michael M. Gunter & Joost Jongerden & Michiel Leezenberg & Stanley Thangaraj
October 2019, Volume 7, Issue 2
- 1-2 Editorial
by Marlene Schäfers - 1-10 Book Reviews
by David Romano & Guney Yildiz & Michiel Leezenberg - 1-22 British travellers, the Kurds, and Kurdistan: A brief literary history,c. 1520-1680Editorial
by Gerald Martin Maclean - 1-26 Crossborder Kurdish Solidarity: An Endangered Aspect of Kurdishness
by Allan Hassaniyan - 1-28 Rekindling the Flame: Zoroastrianism in Iraqi Kurdistan
by Samme Dick
May 2019, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial
by Ibrahim Sirkeci - 1-18 Book Reviews
by Metin Atmaca & Joost Jongerden & Sabri Ateş & Francis O’Connor & Marouf Cabi - 1-20 Language, Kingship, and Nation: The Ambiguous Politics of Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn
by Michiel Leezenberg - 1-21 Kurdish Responses to Imperial Decline: The Kurdish Movement and the End of Ottoman Rule in the Balkans (1878 to 1913)
by Djene Rhys Bajalan - 1-21 Learning from defeat: Development and contestation of the “new paradigm” within Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
by Joost Jongerden - 1-26 Kurdish fiction: From writing as resistance to aestheticised commitment
by Kaveh Ghobadi
May 2018, Volume 6, Issue 2
- 169-170 Editorial
by Djene Rhys Bajalan & Welat Zeydanlıoğlu - 171-196 Historiography and language in 17th-century Ottoman Kurdistan: A study of two Turkish translations of the Sharafnāma
[Dîroknivîsî û ziman di Kurdistana Osmanî ya sedsala 17an de: Vekolînek li ser du wergerên tirkî yên Şerefnameyê]
by Sacha Alsancakli - 197-216 The shaky foundations of the 1926 annexation of Southern Kurdistan to Iraq
[Bingehên lawaz ên îlhaqa Kurdistana başûr bi ser Iraqê ve li sala 1926an]
by Aram Rafaat - 217-241 TRANSLATION- The English-Turkish Conflict of Mosul
[Dubendiya Îngilîz û Tirkan li ser Mûsilê]
by Joachim v. Elbe & Ethem Coban - 242-245 OBITUARY- In memoriam: Faleh Abdul Jabar (1946-2018)
[Ji bo bîreweriya Faleh Abdul Cebar (1946-2018)]
by Michiel Leezenberg - 246-263 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
May 2018, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 5-30 Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective
[Bîrdoza jin û şer li Kurdistanê. Perspektîveke femînîst û rexnegirî]
by Nazand Begikhani & Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss - 31-57 The representation of post-conflict gender violence in Iraqi Kurdish novelistic discourse in Bahdinan
[Temsîla şideta cinsî ya piştî şerî di gotara edebî ya kurdên Iraqê de li herêma Behdînan]
by Lolav M. Hassan Alhamid - 59-83 Reading and feeling gender in perpetrator graffiti and photography in Turkey
[Xwendin û hiskirina cinsiyetê di grafîtî û wêneyên bikeran de li Tirkiyeyê]
by Beja Protner - 85-109 Saving the Survivors: Yezidi Women, Islamic State and the German Admissions Program
[Xelaskirina yên saxmayî. Jinên êzidî, Dewleta Îslamî û bernameya Almanyayê ya qebûlê]
by Thomas McGee - 111-132 Building brand Kurdistan: Helly Luv, the gender of nationhood, and the War on Terror
[Çêkirina Marka Kurdistanê: Helly Luv, cinsiyeta netewetiyê, û Şerê li Dijî Terorê]
by Nicholas Sean Glastonbury - 133-153 Mother-Activism before the European Court of Human Rights: Gender sensitivity towards Kurdish mothers and wives in enforced disappearances cases
[Çalakiyên dayikan li ber Dadgeha Mafên Mirovan a Ewropayê: Hesasiyeta cinsiyetê beramber dayik û jinên kurd di de'wayên bêserûşûnkirinan de]
by Maja Davidovic - 155-167 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
October 2017, Volume 5, Issue 2
- 105-106 Editorial
by Djene Rhys Bajalan & Welat Zeydanlioglu - 107-133 The role of collective identifications in family processes of post-trauma reconstruction: An exploratory study with Kurdish refugee families and their diasporic community
by Ruth Kevers & Peter Rober & Lucia De Haene - 134-156 A spatial perspective on political group formation in Turkey after the 1971 coup: The Kurdistan Workers Party of Turkey (PKK)
by Joost Jongerden - 157-171 Kurds in the USSR, 1917-1956
by Jonathan Otto Pohl - 172-186 In Memoriam: Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017)
by Amir Sharifi - 187-198 Kurdish Studies in Russian Language: 1917-2017
by Ibrahim Sirkeci & Andrej Přívara - 199-214 On the independence referendum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and disputed territories in 2017
by Bill Park & Joost Jongerden & Francis Owtram & Akiko Yoshioka - 215-226 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
May 2017, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-10 On the frontiers of empire: Culture and power in early modern “Iranian” Kurdistan
by Djene Rhys Bajalan - 11-31 What's old is new again: A study of sources in the Šarafnāma of Šaraf Xān Bidlīsī (1005-7/1596-99)
by Sacha Alsancakli - 32-55 The literary legacy of the Ardalans
by Farangis Ghaderi - 56-79 History of Ardalānids (1590-1810) by Sharaf al-Dīn bin Shams al-Dīn
by Sara Zandi Karimi - 80-87 Review: Islam and politics in Iranian Kurdistan at a time of revolution: the life of Ahmad Moftizadeh
by Martin van Bruinessen - 88-103 Book Reviews
by Cengiz Gunes & Liza Mügge & Kevin Smets & Joost Jongerden & Ergin Öpengin & Ebubekir Isik
October 2016, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 119-121 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 122-130 Introduction to the special issue: Yezidism and Yezidi Studies in the early 21st century
by Philip Kreyenbroek & Khanna Omarkhali - 131-147 The displacement of the Yezidis after the rise of ISIS in Northern Iraq
by Irene Dulz - 148-154 Transformations in the Yezidi tradition after the ISIS attacks. An interview with Ilhan Kizilhan
by Khanna Omarkhali - 155-175 Hola Hola Tawusi Melek, Hola Hola Şehidêt Şingalê: Persecution and the Development of Yezidi Ritual Life
by Eszter Spat - 176-196 The gendering of victimhood: Western media and the Sinjar genocide
by Veronica Buffon & Christine Allison - 197-207 Yezidi Spirits? On the question of Yezidi beliefs: A review article
by Philip Kreyenbroek & Khanna Omarkhali - 208-223 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
May 2016, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 3-23 Islamic revivalism and Kurdish nationalism in Sheikh Ubeydullah’s poetic oeuvre
by Kamal Soleimani - 25-50 Language shift among Kurds in Turkey: A spatial and demographic analysis
by Sinan Zeyneloglu & Ibrahim Sirkeci & Yaprak Civelek - 51-77 Mapping action and identity in the Kobani crisis response
by Thomas McGee - 78-93 In search of moral imagination that tells us “who the Kurds are”: Toward a new theoretical approach to modern Kurdish literature
by Joanna Bocheńska - 94-104 Making sense: research as active engagement
by Joost Jongerden - 105-118 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
October 2015, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 125-127 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 128-150 (In)visible spaces and tactics of transnational engagement: A multi-dimensional approach to the Kurdish diaspora
[Meydanên (ne)diyar û rêbazên çalakvaniya siyasî ya fera-neteweyî: Nirxandineke pir-rehendî li ser diyasporaya kurd]
by Bahar Baser & Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson & Mari Toivanen - 151-171 Radical political participation and the internal Kurdish diaspora in Turkey
[Beşdariya siyasî ya radîkal û diyasporaya kurdî ya navxweyî li Tirkiyeyê]
by Francis O’Connor - 172-191 The imaginary Kurdish museum: Ordinary Kurds, narrative nationalisms and collective memory
[Mûzexaneya xeyalî ya kurdî: Kurdên asayî, netewegeriyên dastanî û bîra cemawerî]
by Vera Eccarius-Kelly - 192-208 Filming family and negotiating return in making Haraka Baraka: Movement is a blessing
[فیلم گرتن له بنە ماڵە و باس کردن لە گە ڕانەوە لە کاتی دە رهێنانی "حەرە کە بەرەکە:جووڵانەوە خێروبهرهكهته" (Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing)]
by Lana Askari - 209-216 Reflections on the Kurdish diaspora: An interview with Dr Kendal Nezan
by Mari Toivanen - 217-232 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
May 2015, Volume 3, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial
by Welat Zeydanlioglu & Ibrahim Sirkeci - 3-25 The challenges of writing Kurdish literary history: Representation, classification, periodisation
[Astengên li ber nivîsîna tarîxa edebiyata kurdî: Pêşkeşkirin, tesnîfkirin, û qonaxbendî]
by Farangis Ghaderi - 26-46 The Ideological Transformation of the PKK regarding the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey
[Guherîna îdeolojîk di PKKyê de û aboriya siyasî ya herêma kurdî li Tirkiyeyê]
by Güllistan Yarkın - 47-63 ‘The Palestinian Dream’ in the Kurdish context
[“Xewna Felestînê” li meydana kurdî]
by Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya - 64-81 The Kurds in the changing political map of the Middle East
[Kurd di xerîteya siyasî ya Rojhilata Navîn a di guherînê de]
by Michael M. Gunter - 82-90 Review: Alevis in Turkey
by Esin Çalışkan - 91-98 Obituary: Professor Mirella Galletti Professor Mirella Galletti, a great friend of the Kurds, died in Rome on 4 September 2012. Mirella’s work is of inestimable value to the field of Kurdish Studies and her publications cover not only the history, society and traditions of the Kurds, but also the Christian minorities of the Middle East, particularly those of Iraq and Kurdistan
by Joyce Blau - 99-123 Book Reviews
by Kurdish Studies
October 2014, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 97-98 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 99-122 Introduction to Special Issue - Kurdish: A critical research overview
[Awirvedaneke rexneyî li lêkolînên li ser zimanê kurdî]
by Geoffrey Haig & Ergin Öpengin - 123-142 On the linguistic history of Kurdish
[Li ser tarîxa zimannasî ya zimanê kurdî]
by Thomas Jugel - 143-176 Regional variation in Kurmanji: A preliminary classification of dialects
[Cihêrengiya zimanî ya navxweyî di kurmanciyê de: tesnîfeke seretayî ya zaravayan]
by Ergin Öpengin & Geoffrey Haig - 177-200 Badini Kurdish modal particles dê and da: procedural semantics and language variation
[Pirtikên raweyî yên dê û da di kurdiya badînî de: semantîka prosedûrî û cudatiyên zimanî ya navxweyî]
by Christoph Unger - 201-224 Diversity in convergence: Kurdish and Aramaic variation entangled
[Cihêrengî di konverjansê de: Lêk-aliyana cudatiyên navxweyî yên kurdî û ara-miyê]
by Paul M. Noorlander - 225-246 Book reviews
by Kurdish Studies
May 2014, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 1-3 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 4-13 The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and 2010s
[Kurd û Rewşa Tund ya Rojhilata Navîn: 1980yan û 2010an]
by Hamit Bozarslan - 14-33 Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari?
[Gelo Helebçe xala werçerxê bû bo helbestvan Bulend el-Heyderî?]
by Hilla Peled-Shapira - 34-60 Dengbêjs on borderlands: Borders and the state as seen through the eyes of Kurdish singer-poets
[دەنگبێژانی سەرسنوور. سنوور و وڵات لە ڕوانگە ی شاعیر و گۆرانیبێژی کوردەوە]
by Wendelmoet Hamelink & Hanifi Barış - 61-74 Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and statelessness: An interview with Craig Calhoun
by Barzoo Eliassi - 75-79 Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and statelessness: An interview with Craig Calhoun
by Khanna Omarkhali - 80-95 Book reviews
by Kurdish Studies
October 2013, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 1-4 Editorial
by Martin van Bruinessen - 5-27 Turkey, the Kurds, and the legal contours of the right to self-determination
by Derya Bayir - 28-43 Science-based truth as news: Knowledge production and media in Iraqi Kurdistan
by Andrea Fischer-Tahir - 44-64 Women's activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Achievements, shortcomings and obstacles
by Choman Hardi - 65-90 Mobilised diasporas: Kurdish and Berber movements in comparative perspective
by Ofra Bengio & Bruce Maddy-Weitzman - 91-106 Book reviews
by Janet Klein & David Romano & Michael M. Gunter & Joost Jongerden & Atakan İnce & Marlies Casier