Kurds and Kurdistan

As the Kurdish question becomes more prominent in Middle Eastern politics, it is attracting attention from the media, the academic community, and governmental and non-governmental organizations. Swamped with questions from the press and academic departments, students of Kurdish topics have needed a comprehensive bibliography on the Kurds. This book meets that need. An introductory essay provides users with general background information on the Kurds and Kurdistan. With over 800 entries, the annotated bibliography provides information on the most important works about the Kurds and Kurdistan published from World War II through 1996.Emphasizing recent titles, the book focuses on English-language scholarly works. Arranged in topical chapters, the book opens with a section on general works, then covers travel works, history and archaeology, politics, minorities and religion in Kurdistan, society, economy, language and education, literature and folklore, and culture and arts.

.,."a valuable, annotated bibliography...which will serve a very useful function for those needing to know what has been published on the Kurds."-Journal of Third World Studies, "Timely and welcome, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of the Kurds to appear since [1968].... Readers who began to realize the significance of the Kurds in Middle East politics with their explosion onto the world scene during the Gulf War in 1991 will find this compilation extremely useful. All university, college, public, and most private libraries should acquire it."-Choice, ?...a valuable, annotated bibliography...which will serve a very useful function for those needing to know what has been published on the Kurds.?-Journal of Third World Studies, ?Richly annotated....There are comprehensive author and title indexes, and a subject index that is cross-referenced. An excellent introduction provides pertinent background information. Academic and research libraries will find this volume most useful.?-Reference and Users Services Quarterly, ?The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography....The majority are English-language citations and are accompanied by lengthy, descriptive annotations either written by Meho or taken from reviews originally published elsewhere. These are extremely valuable encapsulations; Meho is less interested in passing judgment than in giving readers detailed summaries of the arguments and information the works contain....The volume is clear and well organized.?-MESA Bulletin

LOKMAN I. MEHO is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Meho is the author of two earlier bibliographies, The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1997) and Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001).