MESOP’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION / THE KURDISH SPRING : Geopolitical Changes and the Kurds – Edited by Mohammed M. A. Ahmed and Michael M. Gunter

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In the midst of all the changes the Arab Spring has brought to the Middle East, the intelligent lay, media, and policy worlds have paid much less attention to what might be called the Kurdish Spring: A sudden Kurdish reawakening with realistic demands for true democracy including cultural, social, and political rights and their immediate implementation. No longer the mere victims of politics, the Kurds have become one of the initiators. Indeed, the once sacrosanct borders separating the Kurds of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran no longer appear certain or secure. The future, as detailed by these 12 chapters, has suddenly become open-ended. It is unlikely that any other such wide-ranging, up-to-date anthology analyzing these events in all four regions of Kurdistan in the Middle East as well as the Kurdish diaspora exists.

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