The Kurds of Iraq: Nationalism and Identity in Iraqi Kurdistan Contributor(s): Aziz, Mahir A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784532738 ISBN-13: 9781784532734 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 305.89 |
Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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Publisher Description: Over ninety years since their absorption into the modern Iraqi state, the Kurdish people of Iraq still remain an apparent anomaly in the modern world - a nation without a state. In 'The Kurds of Iraq', Mahir Aziz explores this incongruity, and asks the pertinent questions, who are the Kurds today? What is their relationship to the Iraqi state? How do they perceive themselves and their prospective political future? And in what way are they crucial for the stability of the Iraqi state? In the wake of the Gulf War of 1991 in the face of the Iraqi state, the Kurds endeavoured to create a de facto state and to concretise and stabilise the institutions that would enable this. 'The Kurds of Iraq' thus examines the creation, evolution and development of Kurdish nationalism despite the suppression of its political and cultural manifestations. Through extensive interviews in the field, Aziz assesses the impact of recent history on the complex process of identity formation amongst Kurdish students at three of the nation's leading universities. |