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Examines the history of the Kurdish people and discusses their status in the modern-day Middle East.

Presents background information on the Kurds and examines the history of their ethnic conflict with other peoples in the mountainous regions of southeastern Asia.

Presents a historical background on the Kurds while looking at controversies surrounding the group's treatment by Iraq and Turkey and whether the Kurds should be granted an independent state, and features four personal narratives.

Traces the history of the Kurdish people, who live mainly in the mountainous region where the borders of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey converge, and discusses their struggles to preserve their culture and establish their own country of Kurdistan.

Describes the history, modern and traditional cultural practices and economies, geographic background, and ongoing oppression and struggles of the Kurds.

Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.

Describes the traditions and beliefs of the Kurdish people, focusing on the political and social problems they face as they struggle with the governments of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq to preserve their cultural identity.

Saleem Hiner shares the story of his coming of age in the 1960s and 70s in a Kurdish village in Iraq, discussing his childhood home, his family's incarceration in a refugee camp in Iran, their lives under the rule of Saddam Hussein, his stint as a Kurdish rebel, and his decision to flee to freedom.

Examines the economic and political issues facing the Kurdish people and describes their oppression under dictator Saddam Hussein as well as their history, political views, religion, foreign relations, and communities in a post-Saddam world.

Surveys the history of the Kurdish struggle for national autonomy or independence, with discussion of their culture, political infighting, and subjection to political repression and mass murder.

Discusses the historical origins, culture, contemporary social organization, day-to-day life, and future hopes of the Kurds of Kurdistan, an area within the boundaries of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Russia.

Explores the history of Turkey in the twentieth century, from the 1915 deportation and murder of half a million Armenians in the country to the death of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the modern Turkish nation.

Draws on examples from culture, language, and genocide to examine the parallels between Native American history and the history of the Kurds of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria.

A study of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland, discussing their historic quest for official statehood, and looking at how the American invasion of Iraq could help the Kurds accomplish that goal.

Jamila and Pembe are twins, born in the 1940s near the border of Turkey and Syria.