Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editorial -- Mass Violence and the Kurds: Introduction to the Special Issue -- Uğur Ümit Üngör and Ayhan Işık -- Research articles -- The State and Violence in Kurdistan: A Conceptual Framework -- Naif Bezwan -- ‘Keep Your Mouth Shut in the Day and Your Door Shut at Night.’ Intra Kurdish Violence in the Shadow of the State: The Case of Hizbullah in Kurdistan of Turkey -- Adnan Çelik -- The Armenian Massacre of 1895 in Bitlis Town -- Mehmet Polatel -- Memory as Experience in Times of Perpetual Violence: The Challenge of Saturday Mothers vis-à-vis Cultural Aphasia -- Özgür Sevgi Göral -- Interview -- Feminism, Gender and Power in Kurdish Studies: An Interview with Prof. Shahrzad Mojab -- Marlene Schäfers -- Obituary -- In Memoriam: Izzaddin Mustafa Rasul (1934-2019), Iraqi Kurdish Man of Letters and Soviet-Trained Scholar -- Nodar Mossaki -- Book reviews -- Political Violence and the Kurdish Conflict: A Review -- Zerrin Özlem Biner, States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey -- Salih Can Açıksöz, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey -- Marlene Schäfers -- J. Andrew Bush, Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Metin Atmaca -- Mneesha Gellman, Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic Minority Rights Movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Seevan Saeed, Kurdish Politics in Turkey: From the PKK to the KCK -- Michael M. Gunter -- Mohammedali Yaseen Taha, Media and Politics in Kurdistan. How Politics and Media are Locked in an Embrace -- Kerem Schamberger -- Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Yiannis Kanakis, "God First and Last": Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran. Volume I: Religious Traditions -- Martin van Bruinessen -- Seyedeh Behnaz Hosseini, The Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political changes and Migration -- Hamidreza Nikravesh -- Mohammed Ihsan, Nation building in Kurdistan: Memory, Genocide and Human Rights -- Uğur Ümit Üngör.

Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies . This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal , published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidisciplinary fashion covering a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, economics, history, society, gender, minorities, politics, health, law, environment, language, media, culture, arts, and education.

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