Recounts the history of the Syrian Rojava Kurds, a democratic secular society whose all-women militia was instrumental in the mountaintop rescue of tens of thousands of civilians besieged by the Islamic State in Iraq,
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ISBN:1942658109
ISBN:9781942658108
Physical Description:print 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Publisher:New York :Bellevue Literary Press,2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-319) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: A road unforeseen -- The Kurds -- Separated at birth -- Insurrection and genocide -- The people take up the struggle -- Kurdish women rising -- Democratic autonomy in Turkey and Syria -- The battle of Kobane and its backlash -- The birth of Daesh -- Daesh vs. Kobane -- War and peace in Turkey -- Coda: Some questions remain.
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