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Throughout their history, the Kurdish people have been the victims of geopolitics. Caught in the middle of wars and conflicts in the oil-rich territory where the borders of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey converge, exploited and betrayed first by colonial nations and then by Cold War superpowers, they have most recently endured genocidal campaigns waged against them by Saddam Hussein.
This stunning visual essay - one hundred photographs taken in locales ranging from Turkey, Iraq, and Israel to Britain and Germany - brings the Kurdish struggle for survival into sharp, powerfully affecting focus. We see the guerrillas training for war, mothers and children living in the bombed-out rubble of their homes, victims of chemical warfare, expatriates in Europe preserving their culture in the face of sometimes violent xenophobia.
And in a cogent introduction, Christopher Hitchens traces the little-known history of the Kurds - a narrative filled with oppression, exploitation, and betrayal - helping us understand the legacy that has given rise to the Kurds' desperate self-reliance that finds expression in the adage: "The Kurds have no friends - no friends but the mountains."
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Counterinsurgency, Kurds, Pictorial works, History, Politics and governmentPeople
Ed KashiPlaces
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When the Borders Bleed: Struggle of the Kurds
1994, Chatto & Windus
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0701162759 9780701162757
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When the borders bleed: the struggle of the Kurds
1994, Pantheon Books
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0679433376 9780679433378
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When the borders bleed: the struggle of the Kurds
1994, Chatto & Windus
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140).
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