Martin van Bruinessen
1
The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and
2010s
Hamit Bozarslan
4
Was Halabja a turning point for the poet Buland al-Haydari?
Hilla Peled-Shapira
14
Dengbêjs on borderlands: Borders and the state as seen through the
eyes of Kurdish singer-poets
Wendelmoet Hamelink and Hanifi Barış
34
Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and statelessness: An interview with
Craig Calhoun
Barzoo Eliassi
61
OBITUARY: Prof Dr Ol’ga Zhigalina (1946–2013)
Khanna Omarkhali
75
Book Reviews
80