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Dialectics of Struggle: Challenges to the Kurdish Women’s Movement  – By Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas

Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas critically explore attempts by activists in the Kurdish political movement – in the Middle East and the diaspora – to challenge patriarchal and masculinist ideology and practices. While recognising the recent commitment to gender equality, the authors complicate the often simplistic glorification of women’s roles within the movement associated with the PYD, PKK and the writings of Abdullah Öcalan. Based on two years of fieldwork in Diyarbakir, Istanbul, Berlin and London, this paper sheds light on the dialectic processes through which the movement translates its political principles of democratic confederalism and gender equality.

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About the Authors

Professor Nadje Al-Ali is Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London. She is specialised in women and gender issues with reference to the Middle East and its diasporas; particularly Iraq and Egypt, and more recently Turkey and Kurdish issues.

Dr Latif Tas is Marie Curie Global Fellow at SOAS and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He works on comparative politics, migration and diaspora mobilisation, gender, citizenship, and conflict and peace in Europe and the Middle East. www.mesop.de