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Hundreds of thousands of Kurds were murdered under the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. Some four thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed. Betrayed again and again by the nations of the world, the Kurds were as decimated as any people in history. Then came the Kurdish Miracle, that combination of ancient wisdom and modern economic genius that is now making the Kurdish homeland one of the most prosperous places on earth.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

بەشی(1-23)ئەمیر کەریمی سەبارەت بە مێژووی«رۆژهەڵاتی ناوین وکەسایەتی کورد دەکات«لە ڕوانگەی ئاپۆیسمبەشی(24-47) لە لایەن ئاهوەن چیاکۆ پێشکەش دەکرێ(لە ڕوانگەی ئاپۆیسم)هەروەهابەشی(48-74) کتێبی کورد کێیە لە نووسینی سۆران حەمەڕەش(لە ڕوانگەی تایبەتی خۆیەوە)بەشی (75-138) وتارەکانی بەڕێز پەیمان حەیدەری(لە ڕوانگەی ئاخێزی کوردەوار)ئێمە هەوڵمان ...

In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region. The ground battle with the caliphate is perhaps over, but was this the end of the conflict that has scarred these nations for decades? 

A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab. In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq fell, ISIS proclaimed the...