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The Kurdish Quest for Statehood

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

There are 25 million Kurds throughout the world; they’re the world’s largest ethnic group without a nation. Quil Lawrence writes about the long Kurdish struggle for statehood and its place in Middle Eastern politics in Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East.

Events: Quil Lawrence will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, April 22 at 2:30 pm
Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
420 West 118th Street (at Morningside Drive)

Quil Lawrence will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, April 22 at 5:30 pm
Carnegie Council
170 East 64th Street (between 3rd and Lexington Avenues)


Comments

  • [1] Pavel Gurvich from Norwalk, CT April 22, 2008 - 01:33PM

    Can anybody explain me why Palestians who assert their national identity only 40 years ago have right for their own state while Kurds who exists as a nation for at least thousand years do not have the same right?
  • [2] hjs from 11211 April 22, 2008 - 01:36PM

    kurds are Iranian-speaking (but not iranian just like spainish are not italian)
  • [3] talat from Alanya, Turkey April 22, 2008 - 09:34PM

    To plunder the petroleum :

    1. first you need a state to deal

    with and legitimacy.

    2. After the last barrel of petroleum is finished

    the ethnic kurds will be left with the larger regional

    people.....

    3. Will the American citizens foot the bill both

    in lives and money for the next 80-120 years?
  • [4] Hajan from NJ April 23, 2008 - 11:59AM

    The Kurds are currently being used by the Americans. That is a well known subject in the international arena. What will happen after the US withdraws from Iraq is the main question that should be asked...

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