Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.
Kurds and Their History: An Interview with David McDowall
âMetin Atmaca
Research articles
Socio-spatial dynamics of contentious politics: A case of urban warfare in the Kurdish region of Turkey
âRonay Bakan
Penalisation of Kurdish Children under the Turkish Anti-Terror Law: Abandonment, Sovereignty and Lawfare
âHazal Hürman
Peace committees, Platforms and the Political Ordering of Society: Doing Justice in the Federation of Northern and Eastern Syria (NES)
âMichael Knapp and Joost Jongerden
Making the Revolution Intelligible, Rendering Political Imaginations Unthinkable: A Postcolonial Reading of British and American Media Representations of Rojava
âCihan Erdost Akin
Sub-State Actors and Foreign Policy Risk-Taking: The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq
âDavid Romano
Review article
Kurds, Zazas and Alevis Celia Jenkins, Suavi Aydin, and Umit Cetin (eds.), Alevism as an Ethno-Religious Identity: Contested Boundaries Erdal Gezik and Ahmet Kerim Gültekin (eds.), Kurdish Alevis and the Case of Dersim: Historical and Contemporary Insights Eberhard Werner, Rivers and Mountains: A Historical, Applied Anthropological and Linguistical Study of the Zaza People of Turkey Including an Introduction to Applied Cultural Anthropology
âMartin van Bruinessen
Book review
Zeki Sarigil, Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam
âMartin van Bruinessen
Scholars and students of Kurdish Studies in all its aspects such as culture, history, society, politics, economics, religions, and languages.