[ecrea] new special issue on Kurdish media and culture

New special issue "Kurdish media and culture in the shifting Middle 
East", Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication,

edited by Kevin Smets and Ali Fuat Sengul.

Kurds have come to occupy an increasingly important position in the 
contemporary Middle East, notably in the struggle against Islamic State 
(IS). This has brought about an increased presence of Kurds in global 
media. At the same time, the Kurdish media landscape in the Middle East 
and in the diaspora has developed rapidly. The timing is thus 
appropriate to reconsider Kurdish media and cultural production in the 
light of the recent political, cultural, social and technological 
shifts. This special issue reflects on this growing field of research, 
focusing on three questions: How do media and cultural production 
contribute to contemporary (discourses on) Kurdish movements, and vice 
versa? How can we explain the emergence of a Kurdish mediascape in the 
Middle East and Europe theoretically and methodologically? And, what is 
the relevance and potential effect of this emerging Kurdish mediascape 
for the existing politics of media at the national and international level?

Table of contents:

Kurds and their cultural crossroads: Kurdish identity, media and 
cultural production – by Kevin Smets and Ali Fuat Sengul

Writing across Kurdistan: Reading social, historical and political 
contexts in literary narratives – by Özlem Belçim Galip

The city of terrorism or a city for breakfast: Diyarbakir’s sense of 
place in the TV series Sultan – by Francesco Marilungo

Gender in the representations of an armed conflict: Kurdish female 
combatants in French and British media – by Mari Toivanen and Bahar Baser

Digital diaspora and social capital – by Janroj Yilmaz Keles

‘Independent’ Kurdish media in Syria: Conflicting identities in the 
transition – by Yazan Badran and Enrico De Angelis

Lost voices of Kurdish cinema – by Bahar Simsek

Published by BRILL and available at 
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18739865. For 
more information contact Kevin Smets ((kevin.smets /at/ vub.ac.be) or 
(kevin.smets /at/ uantwerpen.be)).

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