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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Kurdish"”.
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Cave pollen taphonomy in Kurdish Iraq
… Neanderthal ‘Flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave, Kurdish Iraq. Limited systematic taphonomic work has been done in cave environments, with most of the studies on an ad hoc basis. However, the number of interconnected factors acting on pollen transport, deposition and accumulation in this kind of …
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Bringing Kurdish Music to the West
This document will examine the music of two Kurdish composers, Dalshad Said and Brahim Shexo. It will begin with a biography of each composer that discusses important influences and elements of their musical styles. Because Kurdish music is not well known outside of Kurdistan, the document will …
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
… examines how U.S. policy has responded to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II period until the present. By examining U.S. foreign policy towards Iraqi Kurds, it is possible to trace the evolution of U.S. policy’s response to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II …
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The Kurdish nationalist movement and external influences
The Kurdish National Movement and External Influences is a historic examination of the Kurds, the Kurdish national movement, and the effects of external actors on the movement. It discussed who the Kurds are, where they are located and how many of them there are. The primary topics covered are …
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The acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish
… the acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish, where the direct case is used with both present-tense agents and past-tense patients and the oblique case is used with past-tense agents and present-tense patients. However, recent research suggests the weakening of ergativity in Kurmanji …
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Queer Debt: Affective Politics of Security and Intimacy in Kurdish Turkey
… against Kurds. As with many aspects of Kurdish identity politics in Turkey, the ways in which Kurdish queer folks are articulating, debating, and living identities are intimately and increasingly interwoven with institutions, discourses, and practices of securitization. This dissertation …
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Case and Phi-agreement in Laki: Parametrizing split-ergativity in Kurdish
… split ergative alignments in five dialects of Kurdish (Northwestern Iranian), with the primary focus on the argument structure and case and agreement patterns in Laki (Southern Kurdish). I show that these Kurdish dialects uniformly follow an aspect-based split where the ergative pattern is …
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Aghas, Sheiks, and Daesh in Iraq: Kurdish robust action in turmoil
… civil wars, where the lessons learned from the Kurdish situation will serve future SOF well.
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Neither (Fully) Here Nor There: Negotiation Narratives of Nashville's Kurdish Youth
… and the one into which they were born, the Kurdish one. My contention is that they all live a double life. Over the course of a seven-month period in 2013, I conducted recorded interviews with eleven Kurds in Nashville, ages 16-26. Most were young women but all represented a healthy …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
… of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation …
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Turkish Media, the Kurdish Question and the Peace Process, 2009–2015
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the Kurdish question has been a major challenge for Turkey. In the earlier period within modern Turkish history, the Kurds revolted many times, demanding their rights; but each time the state managed to suppress them violently. However, the armed wing …
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Imagining Kurdish Identity in Mandatory Syria: Finding a Nation in Exile
… dissertation looks at the activities of the Kurdish nationalists from Turkey who were exiled in Syria and Lebanon during the period of the French mandate, and especially Jaladet and Kamuran Bedirkhan. Scions of a princely Kurdish family from the Botan region in Eastern Anatolia, the Bedirkhan …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… The specific focus is placed on the case of Kurdish rebel organisations from Iraq and Turkey. Lacking an ability to organise freely within either state, these groups established a presence in the more open political environment of the West where they undertook efforts aimed at winning global …
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Kurdish Politics in the Cauldron of the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq from Post-Invasion 2003 to the 2017 Independence Referendum
… Iraq, the Middle East and beyond in detail, and Kurdish politics in Iraq is treated as a case study. The research uses data from primary and secondary sources, focusing on interviews, observation and archival documents and collecting data through the opinions and the interpretation of the words …
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
<p>Since the fall of the Ottoman empire, Kurdish nationalism has developed as an ideology within a regional state system where Kurds lack national representation or recognition. This ideology has manifested itself into a fractured movement where the contemporary state borders that separate the …
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Investigating Kurdish Women’s Experiences With Education in Kurdistan With Respect to Oppression
… that sought to answer the question: What do Kurdish women’s experiences reveal about women’s education in Kurdistan with respect to oppression? The study was framed within a postcolonial feminist framework to investigate Kurdish women’s lived experiences within education in the Kurdistan …
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The Presence and Use of Interactive Features on Kurdish News Websites in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. A case study of interactivity of news Kurdish websites of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
… online journalism has become a major part of Kurdish media outlets and distinctive from traditional media because of its interactive nature. The study presented in this thesis focus on interactivity in online journalism by examine interactive features of Kurdish news websites of the (IKR) and …
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