I started the research for this book in 2014, around the time when the Rojava Revolution started gaining momentum and when the attacks of ISIS on Şengal and Kobanî put the focus onto what the Kurdish Freedom Movement was doing in Syria’s northeast.
Isabel Käser
Isabel Käser is a postdoc at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern and a visiting fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. She is currently the principal investigator of a collaborative project between the LSE and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, titled The Kurdistan Region of Iraq Post-ISIS: Youth, Art and Gender. Isabel gained her PhD at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS in London and has previously worked in journalism and diplomacy.