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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Thematic Essays -- Origins and History -- Geography -- Political Systems and Parties -- Religion -- Conflicts and Issues -- Social Organization and Family Life -- Gender Roles -- Housing and Settlements -- Life and Work -- Education -- Language -- Literature -- Media -- Food and Dress -- Music -- Cinema -- Part II: Country Profiles -- France -- Germany -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- Lebanon -- Russia and Transcaucasia -- Sweden -- Syria -- Turkey -- United States -- Part III: Documents -- Sharafnama -- The Kurdish Shānāma -- Mem and Zin -- Report by the British Consul on the Sheikh Ubeydullah Revolt in 1880-1881 -- Sureya, Jaladet, and Kamuran Bedirkhan -- Treaty of Sèvres, August 10, 1920 -- Sherif Pasha's "Memorandum on the Claims of the Kurd People" to the Conference of Peace in Paris on February 6, 1919 -- Khoybun (also known as Hoybun and Hoyboon) -- The Legacy of Qazi Mohamed -- The Manifesto of March 11, 1970 -- The 1975 Algiers Agreement -- Hawar -- Muhammad Talab Hilal's 12-Point Memorandum and the Syrian Population Census of 1962 -- Democratic Confederalism -- Krive -- Article 140 of the New Iraqi Constitution from 2005 -- The Social Charta of West Kurdistan (Rojava) -- Yezidi Sacred Hymns -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index

This book highlights the complicated diversity of Syria's ethnic and religious fragmentation on the basis of the identity building process among the Yezidis, the lowest in the country's socio-economic and political hierarchy

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