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How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
Walker & Company
April 2008
On Sale: April 1, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0802716113
EAN: 9780802716118
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the
Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the
largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland,
comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in
the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and
Syria. Through a history dating back to biblical times,
they have endured persecution and betrayal, surviving only
through stubborn compromise with greater powers. They have
always desired their own state, and now, accidentally, the
United States may have helped them take a huge step toward
that goal. As Quil Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely
study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and
determination grow apace, their future will be largely
dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in
the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in
the name of political expediency. Either way, the Kurdish
north may well prove to be the defining battleground in
Iraq, as the country struggles to hold itself together. At
this extraordinary moment in the saga of Kurdistan,
informed by his deep knowledge of the people and region,
Lawrence’s intimate and unflinching portrait of the Kurds
and their heretofore quixotic quest offers a vital and
original lens through which to contemplate the future of
Iraq and the surrounding Middle East.
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