Word: kurdistan
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...father’s] the head of the reform movement now in Kurdistan,” Mustafa said. “He’s leading a movement for change...
...also started a Facebook group called “Independent Kurdistan!!!” whose logo is a drawing of four knives—representing Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq—stabbing Kurdistan’s heart...
...it’s stable and good, I’ll go back to the States for grad school. If it’s unstable and there’s political strife, I’ll stay in Kurdistan to do my part,” he said. “Whatever is necessary...
...Klaus, a graduate student in history at Harvard, arrived with his “feet on the ground, head in the sky” in Iraq in 2005, two years after the U.S. invasion, to teach English literature and American history in the country’s Kurdistan region...
...Kurdistan, while the only place in Iraq with the degree of stability where it is even conceivable for an American like Klaus to live and teach as he did, also provides an especially strong case for the dialogue on American responsibility in which Klaus engages. Kurdistan has been supportive of the American “liberation” to a greater degree than other parts of Iraq, but it is also indelibly marked with the history of a U.S. betrayal. In 1991, the United States encouraged a Kurdish uprising against Saddam, only to back off their support, leaving room...