Republic of Dreams is written as narrative nonfiction and is told largely through the eyes of one young Kurdish man. The book developed out of my scholarly research on protest and campaigns for political change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where I ..
Nicole F. Watts
Nicole F. Watts is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Along with her new book, Republic of Dreams, she is the author of Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey, coeditor of Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking Up the Party, and many articles and chapters on Kurdish politics in Iraq and Turkey. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, a PhD from the University of Washington, and an MA from the University of London.