SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
A nation denied
This volume reveals the many complexities of the struggle of the Kurds, whose aspirations have been systematically ignored by the international community, writes STEVE SWEENEY
RIGHTS CURTAILED: Riot police arrest a Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) protester last Sunday in Istambul at a celebration of World Peace Day banned by the authorities
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
The Cambridge History of the Kurds
Edited: Hamit Bozarslan, Cengiz Gunes, Veli Yadirgi
Cambridge University Press £94.99
NUMBERING some 40 million people the Kurds are among the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world, yet also one of the world’s most misunderstood. Despite a rich history of culture and resistance, little is known of the Kurdish people outside of the diaspora.
There are striking similarities with the Palestinian struggle – both nations have had their land stolen by imperialist powers and face a genocide at the hands of powerful states – but the Kurdish cause has yet to penetrate the movement in a similar way.
The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an attempt to redress the balance, and a worthy one at that.
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