Syria's kurds [Texte imprimé] : history, politics and society / Jordi Tejel ; translated from the French by Emily Welle and Jane Welle

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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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