Meiselas assembled an array of historic material creating a collective memory and a vital archive from scattered fragments: An extraordinairy sourcebook. Commentary by Martin van Bruinessen.
The first edition (1998) was published in Baghdad, with Kurdish definitions in the Arabic script. The second edition (2000), was published in Istanbul by the Kurdish Institute of Paris.
After such Knowleoge. What Forgiveness ?
My encounters with Kurdistan
This highly readable book, filled with colorful detail and personal anecdote, concerns the Kurds, the least known of the major peoples of the Middle East. Mr....
A prominent figure in the Kurdish community, former mayor of Diyarbakir—principal Kurdish town in Turkey, Mehdi Zana has always pursued a conciliatory approach to the resolution of the Kurdish question. In a statement to the European Parliament in 1992 he said, "Like all the...
Turkey's repression of the Kurds has been widely documented - and is acknowledged as a major obstade to Turkey's accession to the European Union. But what lies behind such repression? Fernandes confronts the issue head on, forcing the reader to probe a question that many in Turkey and...
