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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young Kurdish woman, Leila, desperately investigates the disappearance of her younger brother, Chia, who was involved in increasingly risky social and political activism in Tehran in an unquenchable desire for justice to honor their father's past torture and imprisonment.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Identifying Kurdistan as the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland, an analysis of their history and effort to establish their official statehood evaluates America's pivotal role in their endeavor and explains why the Kurdish north may prove to be a defining battleground in Iraq.
5) Welcome
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee has struggled his way in Europe in an attempt to unite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey.
The Berlin Wall: 75-year-old man attempts to re-build the Berlin Wall.
Author
Series
Special report volume 220
Publisher
U.S. Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It’s 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan’s childhood and bridge the differences of...
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