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The Limits of Modern Islamic Political Thought | Alp Eren Topal (Ibn Haldun University)

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Zaid Brifkani | A Conversation on His Novels and the Kurdish Story from an American Perspective

Shena Abdullah: Food Sovereignty and Local Farmers'Oral Traditions and Heritage

JANET KLEIN | Violence and Security in Kurdistan in the Long Twentieth Century

Dr. Salah Aziz | Kurdish Studies Programs in the USA During the 1990s

Mucahit Bilici | Malik Kurd: On Kurdish Sovereignty

JON BULLOCK | What’s So Kurdish about Kurdish Music? Perspectives from Ethnomusicology