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Syria's Kurds: history, politics and society/

Main Author: Tejel, Jordi
Other Authors: Welle, Emily, Welle, Jane
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: London; New York: Routledge, [c2009]
Series:Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies 16
Subjects:
Kurds > History > 20th century > Syria
Kurds > Civil rights > Syria
Nationalism > Syria
Syria > Ethnic relations
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on transliteration
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The kurds during the French Mandate
  • Kurdish populations under the French Mandate
  • the Mandate system and the birth of the Syrian State
  • the Mandate and the colonial expertise
  • The Kurdish cultural movement in Syria and Lebanon
  • Fragmentation of the Kurdish community
  • Politics in Jazira
  • Syria in transition
  • Searching for new political horizons
  • The triumph of Arab nationalism and the United Arab Republic
  • The bathist system and the Kurds
  • Bathism: an exception in Arab nationalism
  • The years of ideological purity
  • The years of exploitation
  • The Kurdish issue and its transnational dimension
  • The emergence of Hafiz al-Asads game
  • The fall of Saddam Husayn and the collapse of Syrian strategy
  • The Kurdish response and its margins
  • Dissimulation of a hidden conflict
  • The Kurdish parties at the margins of the legal system
  • Kurdish identity at the margins of official Islam
  • The defense of Kurdish culture
  • The Qamishli revolt
  • The marker of a new era for the Kurds in Syria
  • The activities preceding the Kurdish upheaval
  • The Qamishli revolt
  • toward a radicalization of ethnic divisions
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography.

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