Tracing a Kurdish identity through the years

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Voicemails from History

Mujda Ameen

13 episodes

2 weeks ago

History is created using the evidence that people leave behind, sometimes in documents and photo albums, other times on scraps and footsteps here and there. Each episode will feature a voicemail, an extract from the book I’m reading: it could be a speech, an interpretation, a conversation. Join me, a graduate and teacher of history, as I share and review books covering a range of historical events, people and memories. I’ll be offering my commentary and perspective to create a conversation about the issues and values which affect us in the present.

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Tracing a Kurdish identity through the years

Voicemails from History

33 minutes 38 seconds

4 years ago

Tracing a Kurdish identity through the years

Today's voicemail is taken from the following article on the YPJ Zeynab Serekaniye, written by Elizabeth Flock: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/20/turkey-airstrikes-kurds-syria-ypj-ceasefire/

Introducing Season 2! Hello and welcome back to Voicemails from History. In this season, I will be taking you on a tour of modern Kurdish history, each episode highlighting a significant event or moment for them in the 20th century. The Kurds have gained more and more attention in the last decade or so, but there are still gaps in knowledge about who they are and what they want. In this opening episode, I decided to take a more meandering approach and just chat about key moments in Kurdish history, reflecting on their identity development, and what this could mean for their future in the Middle East.

I'd be delighted if you reach out and offer commentary, opinions or suggestions!

Slip ups I made in the episode which I only noticed after recording! *Utilitarian clothing *Turkish Republic formally founded in 1923, not 1920. I hope that's all!

References for this episode:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/20/turkey-airstrikes-kurds-syria-ypj-ceasefire/

McDowall, David. A modern history of the Kurds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Galip, Özlem Belçim. Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, culture and society. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

Jwaideh, Wadie. The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

http://kurdistanica.com/problems-in-kurdish-historiography/

https://www.aljazeera.net/midan/intellect/history/2019/5/24/حاربوا-الصليبيين-وخرجوا-العلماء-دور

Khaldun, Ibn. "Muqaddimah."

Cover photo photographer: Saeed Hassan Rashedi