Contemporary Middle East: Conflicts, Crisis, and Challenges

14/11 Week 9 Syria and Kurds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_889oBKkNU&ab_channel=C-SPAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njdWjqX1YrE&ab_channel=CNN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZB9HqoHaaU&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4aHKen0z2w&ab_channel=HikmaHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5H5w3_QTG0&ab_channel=TheGuardian

Reading 

Obligatory:

SCHWEDLER, Jillian a Sean YOM, LYNCH, Marc, ed., 2022. The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197640050. Chapter 7 p.156-175, chapter 10 p.233-295 

PHILLIPS, Christopher, 2020. The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300249910.


Recommended:

Birgit Poopuu (she/her/hers) (2023) Syrian women on the Syrian revolution: an exercise in decolonial love, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25:4, 570-592, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2022.2119154 


The Day I Lost My Shadow

Allsopp, Harriet. 2016. The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East. 2.nd ed. I.B.Tauris and Co., chapters 6,7,8; pages 148-222

MATAR, Linda a Ali KADRI, ed. Syria: from national independence to proxy war. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]. ISBN 978-3-319-98457-5. p. 27-92

HAMID, Shadi a MCCANTS, William Faizi (ed.). Rethinking political Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, [2017]. ISBN 978-0-19-064919-7.