Traces the history of the Kurdish people, who live mainly in the mountainous region where the borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey converge, and discusses their struggles to preserve their culture and establish their own country of Kurdistan.

Contains a chronology, an introduction, an in-depth bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on all aspects of Kurdish history.

This book unpacks the diversity of experiences of Kurdishness in Turkey. By doing that, this book fills the gap within the literature on ethnicities.

It presents the story of a Kurdish-Iranian family who smuggle goods between Iraq and Iran. The father was killed by mines at the border of Iraq and Iran and the story centres on the youngest boy, Ayoub, now in charge of the family, including his handicapped brother, who desperately needs an operation. This story shows the incredible and heartbreaking struggle of five children to look after each other in the harsh winter of Kurdistan, where it is so...