MESOP OPINION SHORT CUTS : Western fascination with ‘badass’ Kurdish women / GOOD WORDS BY DILAR DIRIK

The media frenzy over the women fighting ISIL is bizarre, myopic, orientalist and cheapens an important struggle.

Last updated: 29 Oct 2014 10:20
Dilar Dirik
Dilar Dirik is a Kurdish activist and a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focus is Kurdistan and the Kurdish women’s movement.