Kurdistan Rising: now available in Sorani Kurdish

Από: Michael Rubin

For more than 15 years, since the end of my first visit to Iraqi Kurdistan and southeastern Turkey, I have written about the situation of Kurdish populations in Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. My recent monograph, Kurdistan Rising, seeks not simply to report on and opine about Kurdish society and politics today, but rather to advance the conversation in which both US policymakers and Kurds engage. Whether or not the Kurds win independence or settle for autonomy is ultimately a question for the Kurds, but whatever Kurds decide, there are a number of issues both Kurdish communities and outside diplomats have pushed off or avoided for too long. In the spirit of tackling these issues, AEI has sponsored the translation of Kurdistan Rising into Sorani Kurdish, the dialect most spoken among Kurds in Iraq and Iran. I am thankful for the help of Pshtiwan Faraj Mohammed, an assistant lecturer at Sulaimani University, an institution in which I had the pleasure to teach in academic year 2000-2001 and to whose students I dedicate this volume. As Dr. Pshtiwan explains in his introduction to the volume: I have positively described this book not because I have read it and translated it into Kurdish, but because of the topicality and timely issues it addresses in its content. This is a book about the fate of the Kurdish nation, more than fifty million people who are scattered around not only the Middle East but also in Europe, who have struggled for independence for decades only to be betrayed by a political leadership that is deeply divided…It is only after reading the whole book that one realizes why Dr. Rubin concludes, “Whether in terms of the political, diplomatic, economic, or military, Kurdish leaders have failed to prepare for independence.”

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Michael Rubin is a former Pentagon official whose major research areas are the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and diplomacy. Rubin instructs senior military officers deploying to the Middle East and Afghanistan on regional politics, and teaches classes regarding Iran, terrorism, and Arab politics on board deploying U.S. aircraft carriers. Rubin has lived in post-revolution Iran, Yemen, both pre- and post-war Iraq, and spent time with the Taliban before 9/11. His newest book, Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes examines a half century of U.S. diplomacy with rogue regimes and terrorist groups.