Contents
List of contributors / ix Editors' preface / xi
Introduction, Sami Zubaida / 1 1 The Kurdish question: a historical review, David McDowall / 10 2 Kurdish society, ethnicity, nationalism and refugee problems, Martin van Bruinessen / 33 3 On the Kurdish language, Philip G. Kreyenbroek / 68 4 Humanitarian legal order and the Kurdish question, Jane Connors / 84 5 Political aspects of the Kurdish problem in contemporary Turkey, Hamit Bozarslan / 95 6 The situation of Kurds in Iraq and Turkey: current trends and prospects, Munir Morad / 115 7 The Kurdish movement in Iraq: 1975-88, A. Sherzad / 134 8 The Kurds in Syria and Lebanon, Ismet Chériff Vanly / 143 9 The development of nationalism in Iranian Kurdistan, Fereshteh Koohi-Kamali / 171 10 The Kurds in the Soviet Union, Ismet Chériff Vanly / 193
Notes / 219 Bibliography / 234 Index / 242 |