Book
The Kurds - A contemporary overview
Editor: Kreyenbroek Philip G., Sperl Stefan
London and New York, 1992, 212 p.
The collection of papers in this volume brings together many aspects of Kurdish
history, politics and culture. They are valuable scholarly contributions. Their
interest, however, at this particular point in time, goes beyond the scholarly. The
Kurdish nation is living and suffering a particularly critical conjuncture in its
history. At a time of advances in democracy and respect for human rights in
many parts of Europe and elsewhere, the transgressions against Kurdish lives and
liberties are getting worse. The outcome of the two recent regional wars frame
the problems and the prospects for the Kurds.