Description:
Jordi Tejel presents - combining different disciplines such as history, sociology and anthropology - a new understanding of the dynamics leading to the consolidation of a Kurdish minority awareness in contemporary Syria. The book explores in particular how conditions for a change in ethnic strategy, from one of 'dissimulation' to one of 'visibility', have emerged amongst Syria's Kurds.
Review Quotes:
"Readers curious about more recent developments in Syria, including the 2004 serhildan and subsequent tensions, should see Tejel's book... I, for one, learned a great deal from this book." - David Romano, Department of Political Sciences, Missouri State University; Int. J. Middle East Studies 43 (2011)