This article examines how the struggle for the recognition of genocide in the twentieth century opens up a political space which, on the one hand, generates historical discourses and …
I was very pleased to be asked to contribute to an issue of the Tibet Journal on Muslims in the Himalayas. However, I am also concerned that the treatment of Himalayan Muslims as a …
It is a sad feature of the Kurdish question that the only times it is brought to our notice is at moments of conflict, when Kurdish guerrillas attack government forces or vice-versa, or when …
This book is focused on the study of" primordial loyalties" which inhibit the formation of national and class consciousness in Kurdish society. The 1961-75 national movement of Iraqi …
Soon after the revolution, Iranian Kurdistan became the centre of opposition to the Islamic government. In an attempt to find out why the Kurds are amongst the most militant and …
… pealling to other Kurdish feudal Aghas in the valley (Navvale) of Nsibin. He asked them to provide him with some Kurdish people to settle in Midyat and help them to tackle the recurrent …
This article explores how the Ottoman court eunuchs engaged with the topography and population of Istanbul by examining the urban residences and other real estate endowed in the …
… Specifically, the bactericidal activity of AgHAs in the nutrient broth solution (NB, [Cl − ] = 100 mM) was evaluated with the turbidimetric method. The details of this method were described …
… mode now transformed into a collective agent of self-sabotage, aided and abetted by the tension with the dominant lords always scheming to limit the independence of the aghas in …
… It was led, in general, by middle-ranking clerics and the guilds in the urban centres and by junior tribal khans and aghas in the countryside. The first half of the 1920s had been …