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Being Kurdish in a hostile world

Ayub Nuri

The author writes about growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, family members dying in a chemical attack, civil war, living in refugee camps, years of starvation that followed UN sanctions, living through the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian rule, as well as discussing the history behind the Kurds being denied a country of their own and the ascent of ISIS.

GenresNuri, AyubKurdsCanadaBiographyJournalists, KurdishJournalists

274 pages

English edition · First published 2017 by University of Regina Press · ISBN 9780889774940

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