Üstündağ, Nazan. The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.

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The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla intervenes in discussions on decolonialism and feminism by introducing the example of the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Üstündağ shows how the practices and the concepts of the movement contribute to debates on how the past, present, and future … more info

Poya, Fawad. “Terrorists or Legitimate Insurgents? The Taliban Status under International Law.” Politics and Religion Journal 17, no. 1 (May 2023): 129–157.

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The term terrorism is not subject to a universally accepted definition. However, it is generally used to describe the use of violence against civilian targets to spread fear and distress and thereby achieve ideological and/or political objectives. Specific acts of terrorism, whether national or … more info

Fahimi, Mohammad Zaher, Mohammad Davood Sokhanwar, and Sardar Mohammad Saee, “Psychological Consequences of Being Deprived of Education for Female Students in Afghanistan: A Cross-Sectional and Qualitative Study”, Journal of Chemical Health Risks. JCHR (November, 2023) 13(4), 1902–1906.

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Deprivation of education is an event that has affected the lives of thousands of Afghan girls in different dimensions, including the psychological dimension. The aim of the current research is to objectively and deeply know the psychological experience of girls who have been banned … more info

Kohandel, Hadi, Mohammad Davood Sokhanwar, Shakila Qasemi, and Masoma Tawasoly. “Critical Statement and Analysis of Phenomenological Approach and Its Implications in the Education Field.” Cross-Cultural Communication 20, no. 4 (2024).

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Phenomenological approach, in its highest intention, aims to understand the nature of phenomena and the quality of realizing and promoting them, as well as perceiving the existence itself as the essence of living and emergence of any phenomenon. The domain of phenomenology in this … more info

Hilal Alkan, Ayse Dayi, Sezin Topçu and Betül Yara (eds.), The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

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In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women’s central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as … more info