(credit: CHAIM GOLDBEG/FLASH90) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revised Middle East map at the September 2024 UN General Assembly, underscoring the Kurds’ critical role in the region.

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Across the Middle ... also enable Kurds to return to Afrin, an area many Kurds were ethnically cleansed from in 2018 by Turkish-backed rebel groups. In addition there is hope in eastern Syria ...

The salience of Kurdish political, social, economic and cultural developments for the Middle East and for wider geopolitics is being increasingly reflected in the upsurge of research in this area.