Introduction – Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) and Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter)

PART 1: REFLECTIONS ON DEBATES OF IDENTITY AND NATION

1. New Perspectives on Writing the History of the Kurds in Iraq, Syria and Turkey: A History and State of the Art Assessment – Jordi Tejel (Graduate Institute of Geneva)
2. Social Movement Theory and Political Mobilization in Kurdistan – David Romano (Missouri State University)
3. Religion Among the Kurds: Between Naqshbandi Sufism and IS Salafism – Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam)
4. Politics of Memory: Kurdish Ethnic Identity and the Role of Collective Forgetting – Hakan Özoğlu (University of Central Florida)
5. “Being in Time”: The Kurdish Movement and Quests of Universal – Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS Paris)
6. Separated but Connected: The Synergic Effects in the Kurdistan Sub-System – Ofra Bengio (Tel Aviv University)
7. Fact and Fiction in Modern Kurdish Narrative Discourse – Hashem Ahmadzadeh (University of Stockholm)
8. Political and Everyday Religion in Kurdistan – Diane E. King (University of Kentucky)
9. The Shifting Borders of Conflict, Difference, and Oppression: Kurdish Folklore Revisited – Christine Allison (University of Exeter)
10. Kurdish Music in Armenia: The Music of the Yezidis – Nahro Zagros (University of Soran)

PART 2: THE KURDISH QUESTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPRE AND TURKEY

11. The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880 – Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
12. Journalism Beyond Borders: The Bedirkhans and the First Kurdish Gazette, 1898–1902 – Janet Klein (University of Akron)
13. Mobilisation of Kurds in Turkey during the 1980s and the 1990s – Cengiz Gunes (The Open University)
14. Turkey’s Kurdish Problems, The Kurds’ Turkish Problems – Bill Park (King’s College London)
15. The Transformation of Turkey’s Kurdish Question – Henri Barkey (The Wilson Center)
16. Contrasting Turkish Paradigms Towards the Volatile Kurdish Question: Domestic and Foreign Considerations – Michael M. Gunter (Tennessee Technological University)
17. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK): Radical Democracy and the Right to Self-Determination Beyond the Nation-State – Joost Jongerden (Wageningen University)
18. The PKK, the Kurdish Movement, and the Emergence of Kurdish Cultural Policies in Turkey – Clémence Scalbert-Yücel (University of Exeter)

PART 3: THE KURDISH QUESTION AND SYRIA

19. The Curious Question of the PYD-PKK Relationship – Zeynep Kaya (LSE) and Robert Lowe (LSE)
20. Kurdish Political Parties and the Syrian Uprising – Harriet Allsopp (independent scholar)

PART 4: THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAN

21. The Kurdish Conundrum and the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-2003 – Nader Entessar (University of Southern Alabama)
22. Identities and Ethnic Hierarchy: The Kurdish Question Revisited in Iran – Olivier Grojean (Aix-en-Provence)
23. Fellow Arians and Muslim Brothers: Iranian Narratives on the Kurds – Walter Posch (Austrian National Defence Academy, Vienna)

PART 5: THE KURDISH QUESTION AND IRAQ

24. The Kurdish Experience in Post-Saddam Iraq – Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter)
25. Arabization as Genocide: The Case of the Disputed Territories of Iraq – Mohammed Ihsan (University of Erbil)
26. The Development of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s Higher Education Sector: A Gender Perspective – Katherine Ranharter (University of Exeter)
27. Water and Development in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Greg Shapland (University of Exeter)
28. Peace Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Evolution and Limitations – Kelsey Shanks (University of Exeter)
29. The Iraqi Kurdish Response to the “Islamic State”: Political Leverage in Times of Crisis – Benjamin Isakhan (Deakin University)
30. In Pursuit of Friends: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy – Renad Mansour (Carnegie – Beirut)
31. A Paradigm Shift in US-Kurdistan Region of Iraq Relations Post-2014: The Evolution to a Strategic Partnership – Mohammed Shareef (University of Exeter)
32. Re-claiming Halabja – Nicole Watts (San Francisco State University)
33. Media, Political Culture, and the Shadows of the Militia War in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin)
34. Experiences of Honor-based Violence, and Moving Towards Action in Iraqi Kurdistan – Nazand Begikhani (University of Bristol) and Gill Hague (University of Bristol)
35. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Federal Constitution: A Perimeter Plinth of State Territorial Integrity or a Stepping Stone to Secession? – Francis Owtram (University of Exeter)