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Recent Publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar. 2022. “Kurds, Jews, and Kurdistani Jews: Historic Homelands, Perceptions of Parallels in Persecution, and Allies by Analogy<\/a>.” Religions <\/em>13(3): 253.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayhan, Tutku and Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat. 2021. “Overcoming ‘intimate hatreds’: Reflections on violence against Yezidis<\/a>“. In Aafreedi, Navras J. and Singh, Priya (eds.), Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations<\/em>. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar. 2021. “Internal Colonialism and the Discipline of Comparative Literature in Iran<\/a>.” Revista Brasileira de Literature Comparada <\/em>23(43): 94-117.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar. 2021. “Kurdish as a Stateless Language in the U.S.<\/a>” Journal of National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages<\/em> 30(1): 48-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar and Tyler Fisher. 2021. \u201cForever a Kurd\u201d, \u201cPoetic Justice,\u201d and \u201cDance of Death\u201d. In Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora<\/em>, edited by Christopher Nelson, Green Linden Press, pp. 133-134, 178.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar and Tyler Fisher. 2021. \u201cFour Ghazals\u201d. My Moon Is the Only Moon: The Poetry of Nali<\/em>, edited by David Shook, Kashkul Books, pp. 83-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat. ed. 2021. Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East: Shifting Identities, Borders and the Experience of Minority Communities<\/em><\/a>. London: I.B. Tauris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat and Doreen Horschig. 2021. “A Conditional Norm: Chemical Warfare from Colonialism to Contemporary Civil Wars<\/a>.” Third World Quarterly <\/em>42(2): 366-384.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, Rebecca Schiel, and Bruce Wilson. 2021. “The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Il\u0131su Dam in Turkey<\/a>.” Development and Change <\/em>52(6): 1343-1369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, Tyler and Haidar Khezri. 2020. \u201cSkylight\u201d and \u201cThe Heart is Moth Aflame<\/a>,\u201d translation of Kurdish rubai<\/i> and ghazal<\/i> by Malaye Jaziri. Poet Lore<\/i><\/a>, December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khezri, Haidar and Tyler Fisher. 2020. \u201cTwo Ghazals by Nali<\/a>,\u201d translation of Kurdish ghazal<\/i> by Nali. The Brooklynrail<\/i>, October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat. 2020. “A Path out of Patriarchy? Political Agency and Social Identity of Women Fighters<\/a>.” Perspectives on Politics<\/em> 18(3): 722-739.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zibari, Renas, Thai Lagraff, Quyen D. Chu, Anand Annamalai, Sachin \u201cSunny\u201d Jha, Lou Smith, Bharat Guthikonda, Hosein Shokouh-Amiri, Gazi <\/span>B. Zibari. 2020. “<\/span>Medical Capacity-Building in War-Torn Nations: Kurdistan, Iraq as a Model<\/a>,” Journal of the American College of Surgeons. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat  and Helin Y\u0131ld\u0131z, 2019. “Kurdish Politics in Post-2011 Syria: From Fragmentation to Hegemony,<\/a>” Mediterranean Politics<\/em>, Published Online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, 2019. “A Century of the Kurdish Question<\/a>,” Ethnopolitics<\/em> 18(1): 1-12. In a special issue on Kurdish politics edited by G. M. Tezc\u00fcr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, Tyler and Nahro Zagros, 2018. “Yezidi Baptism and Rebaptism: Resilience, Reintegration, and Religious Adaptation<\/a>,” in Routledge Handbook on the Kurds <\/em>ed., Michael M. Gunter, New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat and Peyman Asadzade, 2018. “Ethnic Nationalism versus Religious Loyalty: The Case of Kurds in Iran<\/a>,” Nations and Nationalism. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat and Clayton Besaw, 2018. “Jihadist Waves: Syria, the Islamic State, and the Changing Nature of Foreign Fighters<\/a>,” Conflict Management and Peace Science. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2017<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat and Mehmet G\u00fcrses, 2017. “Ethnic Exclusion and Mobilization: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey<\/a>,” Comparative Politics<\/em> 49(2): 213-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 2016<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6zo\u011flu, Hakan, 2016. “Politics of Memory: The Role of Collective Forgetting in Kurdish Identity Formation,” in The Kurdish Question Revisited<\/a> <\/em>eds., Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef, London: Hurst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, 2016. “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Risks: Joining an Ethnic Rebellion<\/a>,” American Political Science Review <\/em>110(2): 247-264.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, 2015. “Catholic and Muslim Human Rights Activism in Violent Internal Conflicts<\/a>,” Politics and Religion <\/em>8(1): 111-134.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, 2015. “Electoral Behavior in Civil Wars: The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey<\/a>,” Civil Wars <\/em> 17(1): 70-88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tezc\u00fcr, G\u00fcne\u015f Murat, 2015. “Violence and Nationalist Mobilization: The Onset of the Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey<\/a>,” Nationalities Papers <\/em>43(2): 248-266.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Projects<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Policy Making in Turbulent Times<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
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On Thursday, April 21, 2022, the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) organized its landmark event of Spring 2022 \u2013 the American Foreign Policy and Intelligence Conference. The conference attracted a lively audience which featured 10 scholars and experts who provided unique perspectives about American foreign policy and intelligence in the wake of the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the U.S. foreign policy and intelligence establishment has been subject of widespread criticisms for the swift fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, they have also been praised for providing accurate predictions of Russian intentions in Ukraine. Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Strengthening Global Citizenship of Kurdistan-Iraq Youth
<\/strong>Model United Nations 2021<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n
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Model United Nations (MUN) are educational conferences which offer its participants an opportunity to experience the parliamentary procedure and decision-making process employed by the United Nations. As simulations of the world’s largest international organization, MUNs offer a friendly way to expose young people around the world to the international community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent cooperation between UCF\u2019s Kurdish Political Studies Program<\/a> and Soran University<\/a> in Iraqi Kurdistan aim to introduce this experience to Iraq by organizing the country’s first National Model United Nations. The conference seeks to bring together one hundred participants from across Iraq. For three days the students will assume the role of country delegates, take part in the parliamentary proceedings, and debate issues of international importance while practicing policy research. Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the Last ‘Firman’<\/strong><\/span>
Victimhood, Survival and Societal Transformation among the Yezidis<\/strong>  <\/span> <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n
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In 2014, the Yezidi- a religious community with historical roots in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq – had repeatedly been targeted by the Islamic State\u2019s (IS) violence against the Yezidis: thousands of Yezidis were executed and large numbers of women and children were taken hostages and subsequently sold as slaves. While the Yezidis have historically developed a strong sense of existential threat perception as a marginalized minority, the IS assault has pushed the community to the brink of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is a collaboration among the University of Central Florida, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the American University of Kurdistan. The project addresses a series of questions about the dimensions of Yezidi religion by empirically focusing on the lived experience of Yezidis. While IS atrocities against the Yezidis have received significant media attention, their lingering effects on Yezidis’ lives and relations between them remain unexplored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theses<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Doctoral Dissertations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n