Category: Kurdistan
Cathy Breen: Stories by the Fire
Bruno Jäntti: On Racism, Patriarchy and Corruption in Iraqi Kurdistan
Preeti Kaur: Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Confederalism, Gender justice, and Ecology
The families behind curtains like these, in camps, or in repurposed or unfinished buildings, have for the time a desperately welcomed measure of security
Güney Işıkara: Turkey’s Decisive YearChaos, violence, and authoritarian rule reign in Turkey. Is there any opening for the Kurdish liberation movement?
Janet Biehl: The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern SyriaA talk on the transformation of women’s roles in Rojava as a result of the formation of women’s academies and the revolution’s encouragement of women to become equal participants in all spheres of life
When working in Iraqi Kurdistan, I was struck by the prevalence of regressive attitudes, including racism and sexism
Janet Biehl: Thoughts on RojavaFull of admiration, but not without critique: Janet Biehl shares some of her ideas on the Rojava revolution after her recent visits to the region
As a result of these new principles of justice, and new alternative conflict resolution commitments, women and girls are not automatically blamed
Dilar Dirik: Forget the UN! Meet the Self-Determining Refugees in KurdistanRejecting the victim narrative, PKK-supported refugee camps in Kurdistan have taken control of their fates by creating their own autonomous system
Janet Biehl: Liberated learning in RojavaThe new women’s science of jineolojî and the revolutionary transformation of education in Rojava, western Kurdistan
Dilar Dirik: From Genocide to Resistance: Yazidi Women Fight BackHaving suffered a traumatic genocide, Yazidi women on Mount Sinjar mobilize their autonomous armed and political resistance with the PKK’s philosophy
Joris Leverink: Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistanceBookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy