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The CMES New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series presents the launch of
The Cambridge History of the Kurds with editors
Hamit Bozarslan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Cengiz Güneş (The Open University, Milton Keynes), and Veli Yadirgi (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Please note: the Editors will speak for the 1st hour of this event. From 11am-12pm, Hamit Bozarslan will give a talk entitled, The Kurds, Imperial Dynamics, and Inter-Imperial Spaces (12th-19th Centuries); click here for more information.
Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3gw5Zue
The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
Contact: Liz Flanagan