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A Thousand Sighs, A Thousand Revolts: Journeys in Kurdistan |
| Christiane Bird |
| Balantine Books, 2004, hardcover, 405 pp. |
| Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, and part cultural study, Bird's book offers timely insight into an unknown but increasingly influential part of the world. The Kurds—numbering between 25 and 30 million—are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, and the largest ethnic group in the world without a state. Bird describes Kurdistan in both its actual and mythical existence. Traveling among the Kurds of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, Bird paints a moving portrait of a people uneasily poised between a stubborn past and an impatient future. |
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