Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Welat Zeydanlıoğlu and Ibrahim Sirkeci -- The Challenges of Writing Kurdish Literary History: Representation, Classification, Periodisation / Farangis Ghaderi -- The Ideological Transformation of the PKK regarding the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey / Güllistan Yarkın -- The “Palestinian Dream” in the Kurdish Context / Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya -- Viewpoint -- The Kurds in the Changing Political Map of the Middle East / Michael M. Gunter -- Review -- Alevis in Turkey / Esin Çalişkan -- Obituary -- Professor Mirella Galletti (1949–2012) / Joyce Blau -- Book Reviews -- Honor and Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan, written by Minoo Alinia / Choman Hardi -- Understanding Turkey’s Kurdish Question, edited by Fevzi Bilgin and Ali Sarıhan / Cengiz Gunes -- Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War, written by Michael M. Gunter / Thomas Schmidinger -- The United States, Iraq and the Kurds: Shock, Awe and Aftermath, written by Mohammed Shareef / Marianna Charountaki -- Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace, written by Latif Tas / Joost Jongerden -- Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Factors for Peace and Democracy, edited by Galia Goran and Walid Salem / Bahar Başer -- The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society, written by Mehmed S. Kaya / Martin van Bruinessen -- Trust and Fear in Civil Wars: Ending Intrastate Conflicts, written by Shanna Kirschner / Wietse van den Berge.

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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