Dissertations in Kurdish Studies

Dissertations in Kurdish Studies

Ancient History

• Kozad Mohamed, Ahmed. (2012). The Beginnings of Ancient Kurdistan (c. 2500-1500 BC): a Historical and Cultural Synthesis. (PhD – Leiden University).

Kurdish Studies

• Alagöz, Mehmet. (2003). Old Habits Die Hard A Reaction To Application Tanzimat: Bedirhan Bey’s Revolt. ( MA Thesis Boğaziçi University).
• Ali, Othman. (1992). British Policy and the Kurdish Question in Iraq, 1918-1932. ( PhD University of Toronto).
• Bozarslan, Hamit. “Research guide to Kurdish Studies“, Middle East Review of International Affairs.
• Foley, Sean Ezra. (2005). Shaikh Khalid and the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiayya, 1776-2005. (PhD Georgetown University).
• Hassan, Zheger. (2015). The Origins and Evolution of De Facto States: Implications for Iraqi Kurdistan. (PhD – Universtiy of Western Ontario).






• Klein, Janet. (2010). “Minorities, Statelessness, and Kurdish Studies Today: Prospects and Dilemmas for Scholars,” Journal of Ottoman Studies/Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi, special issue in honor of Rifa’at Abou-el-Haj, pp.225-237. This special issue has also been reprinted as a book: Donald Quataert and Baki Tezcan (2010) (eds). Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Ottoman and Middle Eastern/North African Studies: A Tribute to Rifa‘at Abou-El-Haj. (İSAM). pp.225-237.
• Öğüt, Özcan. (2012). The Ghost Identity. (MA Thesis Universitat Pompeu Fabra MA).
• Scalbert-Yücel, Clémence and Le Ray, Marie. (2006). Knowledge, Ideology and Power. Deconstructing Kurdish Studies, European Journal of Turkish Studies, 5.
• Sönmez, Ebru. (2006). An Acem Statesman in the Ottoman Court: İdris-i Bidlisi and the Making of the Ottoman Policy on Iran. (MA Thesis Boğaziçi University).
• Yusupova, Z. A. (2005). Kurdish Studies at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in Russia (1959—2005), Institute of Oriental Manuscripts in Russia, tr. by A. Zorin.

The Kurdish Question

• Çağlayan, Muttalip. (2013). Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict through the Lenses of Conflict Resolution. (MA-Middle East Technical University).
• Ozsoy, Hisyar. (2010). Between Gift and Taboo: Death and the Negotiation of National Identity and Sovereignty in the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey. (PhD – The University of Texas at Austin).
• The Canadian Migration Board. (2012). Turkey: Situation of Kurds in Western Cities Such as Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Konya and Mersin; Resettlement to These Cities(2009 – May 2012). (Refworld).
• Westrheim, Kariane. (2009). Education in a Political Context. A Study of Knowledge Processes and Learning Sites in the PKK. (PhD – University of Bergen).

Nationalism and Nation-building

• Morriss, Sarah. (2009). Ethnonationalism in Contemporary Context: Shifting Discourses of Pro-Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey. (MA – The University of British Columbia).
• Voller, Yaniv. (2012). From Rebellion to De Facto Statehood: International and Transnational Sources of the Transformation of the Kurdish National Liberation Movement in Iraq into the KRG. (PhD – London School of Economics).

Language

• Çoşkun, Vahap; Derince, Şerif M. and Uçarlar, Nesrin. (2011). The Scar of Tongue: The Consequences of the Ban on the Use of Mother Tongue in Education and the Experiences of Kurdish Students in Turkey. (DISA).
• Uçarlar, Nesrin. (2009). Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance: Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey. (PhD – University of Lund).
• Yuksel, Metin. (2011). Dengbej, Mullah, Intelligentsia: The Survival and Revival of the Kurdish-Kurmanji Language in the Middle East, 1925-1960. (PhD – University of Chicago).

Diaspora and Migration

• Alinia, Minoo. (2004). Spaces of Diasporas: Kurdish Identities, Experiences of Otherness and Politics of Belonging. (PhD – Göteborg University).
• Başer, Bahar. (2012). Inherited Conflicts: Spaces of Contention between Second-Generation Turkish and Kurdish Diasporas in Sweden and Germany. (PhD – European University Institute).
• Başer, Bahar. (2011). Kurdish Diaspora Political Activism inEurope with a Particular Focus on Great Britain. Berghof Peace Support and Centre for Just Peace and Democracy.
• Eliassi, Barzoo. (2010). A Stranger in my Homeland: The Politics of Belonging Among Young People with Kurdish Backgrounds in Sweden. (PhD – Mid Sweden University).
• Enelli, Pinar; Modood, Tariq and Bradley, Harriet. (2005). Young Turks and Kurds: A Set of ‘Invisible’ Disadvantaged Groups. (Joseph Roundtree Foundation).
• Geerse, Miriam T. (2001). The Everyday Violence of Forced Displacement : Community, Memory and Identity Politics among Kurdish Internal Forced Migrants in Turkey. (PhD – Utrecht University).
• Karayakupoğlu, Harun Cengiz. (2012). State and Media Influence on the Drawing of Ethnic Boundries: Kurdish Work Migrants on the Black Sea Cost of Turkey. (MA – University of Bergen).
• Khayati, Khalid. (2012). Diaspora as an Instance of Global Governance: The Case of Kurds in Sweden in Global Civil Society: Shifting Powers in a Shifting World. Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin (eds). Uppsala University Press.
• Khayati, Khalid. (2008). From Victim Diaspora to Transborder Citizenship? Diaspora Formation and Transnational Relations Among Kurds in France and Sweden. (PhD – Linköping University).
• Pelling, Lisa. (2013). Post-Remittances? On Transnational Ties and Migration Between the Kurdistan Region in Iraq and Sweden. (PhD – University of Vienna).
• Sirkeci, Ibrahim. (2003). Migration, ethnicity and conflict : the environment of insecurity and Turkish Kurdish international migration. (PhD – University of Sheffield).
• Strand, Arne, Bendixsen, Synnøve, Paasche, Erlend and Schultz, Jessica. (2011). Between Two Societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme. CMI Report. 4.
• Toivanen, Mari. (2014). Negotiating Home and Belonging: Young Kurds in Finland. (University of Turku Doctoral Thesis).
• Zettervall, Charlotta. (2013). Reluctant Victims into Challengers – Narratives of a Kurdish Political Generation in Diaspora in Sweden. (PhD – University of Lund).

Identity

• Akcinar, Mustafa. (2010). Re-invention of Identity: The Case of Dersim CommunityAssociation in Berlin. (MA – Middle East Technical University).

Music

• Sarıtaş, B. Siynem Ezgi. (2010). Articulation of Kurdish Identity through Politicized Music of Koms. (MA – Middle East Technical University).

Forced migration

• Meçin, Mansur. (2004). The Question of Urban Integration and Forced Migration from East and Southeast Anatolian Regions After 1980: The Case of Mersin. (MA – Middle East Technical University).
• Mutlu, Yeşim. (2009). Turkey’s Experience of Forced Migration After 1980s and Social Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Diyarbakir and Istanbul. (MA – Middle East Technical University).
• Sirkeci, Ibrahim. (2003). Migration, ethnicity and conflict : the environment of insecurity and Turkish Kurdish international migration. (PhD – University of Sheffield).

Women

• International Free Women’s Foundation. (2007). Psychological Consequences of Trauma Experiences on the Development of Migrated Kurdish Women in the European Union. (Report).

Prison

• Nas, Alparslanm. (2011). Rethinking Diyarbakir Prison: Musealization as a Resistantant Activism. (Cultural Studies and Literature Blob).

Imperial Powers and the Kurds

• Dundar, Fuat. (2012). “Statisquo”: British Use of Statistics in the Iraqi Kurdish Question (1919-32). Crown Paper 7. Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Brandeis University.

Classical

• Beyter, Önder. (2013). Mullah Ehmede Heyderi’s Diwan: A Textual Analysis. (MA – Mardin Artuklu University, in Kurdish).

Media

• Hogan, John and Trumpbour, John. (2013). The Press and Political Process in Contemporary Iraqi Kurdistan: Final Report. (Report).

Lebanon

• Hourani, Guita G. (2011). The Kurds of Lebanon: Socioeconomic Mobility and Political Participation via Naturalization. (The Lebanese Emigration Research Center Research Paper Series).

Planning 

• Mohammadi, Rojan. (2014). Moving a Market: Impacts of Heritage Nomination on a Local Community. A Case Study of Delal Khaneh in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Waterloo University MA Thesis).