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3 weeks ago | 
truthdig.com | Matt Broomfield
Rojava on the Brink Turkish airstrikes and an Islamist power in Damascus endanger the future of Syrian Kurdistan’s multiethnic democratic federation.
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1 month ago | 
akuk.com | Matt Broomfield
Hope Without Hope - Rojava and Revolutionary CommitmentProduct Information**THIS IS A PREORDER.** The book is expected to arrive in Edinburgh some time in August 2025. We will put any orders into our system and send them out as soon as we have copies. If you use Paypal to pay,you will have prepaid. If you use a card, we will not charge you until the book is being sent out.
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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Matt Broomfield
diverseKurdsrestofworldPoliticsSyriaTurkeyWar In 1978, a handful of Kurdish political science students gathered in an obscure village in Turkey’s southeast, together founding a militant Marxist-Leninist party. A half-century on, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its affiliates have controlled territory from Iran’s remote Zagros Mountains, through the Iraqi desert to ISIS’s erstwhile Syrian capital Raqqa.
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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Matt Broomfield
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2 months ago | 
truthdig.com | Matt Broomfield
The blitzkrieg offensive which ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 has sparked an explosive political and military reaction across the country.
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2 months ago | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | Matt Broomfield
The blitzkrieg offensive which ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 has sparked an explosive political and military reaction across the country.
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2 months ago | 
thebaffler.com | Matt Broomfield
Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez, translated by Sami Hêzil. Other Press, 144 pages. 2025. A single letter can bear a heavy burden. Just ask the fifteen million Kurds living in Turkey, where the letters X, Q, and W were long banned from names and public use due to their association with the repressed Kurdish language. Or the Palestinians, whose claims to nationhood have been similarly denigrated by Israeli lawmakers on the spurious basis that the Arabic language lacks a letter P.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
unherd.com | Matt Broomfield
AssadGeopoliticsKurdsrestofworldSyriaTurkeyWar From the moment I cross the rickety pontoon bridge from Iraq into Syrian Kurdistan, I feel a deep sense of isolation. The arrivals hall, which offers the only link to the outside world, is falling apart around me. The duty free shop is shuttered, and even its sign is crumbling — the “DUTY” has long since vanished, but you can just about make out “FREE” clinging to the wall outside.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
truthdig.com | Matt Broomfield
I recently returned to Rojava, as Syrian Kurdistan is known, for the first time since the collapse of the Assad regime. Throughout years working in the Kurdish-led, multiethnic federation, famed for its key role in defeating ISIS, I had never before witnessed such widespread trepidation.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
atlasobscura.com | Matt Broomfield
Tourists trickle down into the bowels of Belgrade’s monumental fortress, attracted by banners promising a “MEDIEVAL TORTURE MUSEUM.” A $5 entrance fee secures access to three dusty, gloomy rooms, tucked away in the battlements alongside a range of other money-spinning ventures.
The sounds of axes chopping and muffled screams are piped through the catacombs, creating a slightly cheesy, slightly unsettling atmosphere.
