Kurdish paths to nation

published in French translation as: ‘Nationalisme kurde et ethnicités intra-kurdes’, Peuples Méditerranéens, no. 68-69 (1994), 11-37., 1994

Current History

The Kurdish question consists of the desire of most Kurds to have the cultural, linguistic, and political rights that will protect their Kurdish identity. Some Kurds also seek autonomy or even independence from the countries in which they live; those states, however, have long denied such aspirations. … The result has been a constant instability that promises to intensify as the Kurds become more politically aware and as their cause grows more visible to the outside world.

Kurdish Nationalism, 2019

The fall of the Ottoman Empire marked the modern history of the Middle East. Everything started to change, and new states were being formed. The Kurds, however, did not manage to get a state of their own, but they did make important movements that this paper is going to be addressing. The Kurds issue in the Middle East needs to be addressed, and this paper hopes to achieve just that.

2018

Significantly, ethnic conflicts have affected both the developed and developing world equally. Nonetheless, given the already weak state apparatus of majority of the developing countries, such ethnic struggles have proved to be more detrimental and injurious to the developing world. In verity, it is only a recent phenomenon that ethnic groups or political actors have started mitigating their political demands or rights in the name of ethnicity or nationalism. However, historically political legitimacy was solely derived from religion. This Abstract:

Turaj Atabaki and Margreet Dorleijn (eds), Kurdistan in search of ethnic identity. Utrecht: Department of Oriental Studies, 1991, pp. 24-51, 1991

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 18, 39-52. , 1998

2001