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Informationen zum Autor Susan Meiselas is an award-winning photographer and a member of the Magnum Photos agency. She was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal and was named a MacArthur Fellow. Martin van Bruinessen is an anthropologist who has been involved with the Kurds for over three decades. He is currently a professor at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World and at Utrecht University. Klappentext A magnificent photographic history of the Kurdish people and their struggle for independence and survival over the past 125 years! gathered by one of America's foremost photojournalists. In bringing together these dispersed pieces! Susan Meiselas allows history to speak for itself through the words of freedom fighters! missionaries! spies! politicians! and princes. Over 400 photos. Zusammenfassung Kurdistan was erased from world maps after World War I! when the victorious powers carved up the Middle East! leaving the Kurds without a homeland. This title presents images and accounts by colonial administrators! anthropologists! missionaries! soldiers! journalists! and others who have traveled to Kurdistan over the last century.
