Dreaming Kurdistan: The Life and Death of Kurdish Leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou

ISBN-13: 9781433167843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 540 str.

Carol Prunhuber

Opis

This book follows the life and brutal assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, the Iranian Kurdish leader who was killed while negotiating a supposed peace accord for his people with Iranian government emissaries in Vienna, Austria 1989.

Recenzje

"Carol Prunhuber's invaluable firsthand evaluation of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou makes clear why he was the preeminent Kurdish leader of his era. Carol Prunhuber, who knew Ghassemlou in Kurdistan and in Paris, faithfully honored his request that she write his biography, which today illustrates his prescience about the Kurds' fate-and why the ayatollahs assassinated him in 1989."-Jonathan Randal, former Washington Post correspondent and author of After Such Knowledge What Forgiveness? My Encounters with Kurdistan

Spis treści

Prologue - Meeting in Vienna - A Fearless Man - The Intermediary - The Murderers - Mofsed-e-filarz - Shah Raft! Shah Raft! - Kurdistan or Ghabrestan! - Mahabad, Nationalist City - Peasants and Aghas - The Three-Month War - Kurdistan at War - The French Connection - Iranian Offensive - Journey to the Mountains - Politics, Religion, and Land Reform - Sons of Simko - Rifts and Rivalries - A Revolutionary Vision - After the Crime - Stunned - Ben Bella Accuses - Two Police Reports - Winter in Vienna - The Assassins - The Conversation - Creaking on the Floor - Cobra II - An Unfinished Story - Simko - Acknowledgments - Glossary - Dramatis Personae - Timeline: Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and the PDKI - Timeline: Historical Events and Geopolitical Context - Appendix: Austrian Police Reports - Index.

O autorze

Carol Prunhuber holds a degree in literature from UCAB, Caracas, and a doctorate in Ibero-American studies from Université Paris VII. Her publications include Sangre y asfalto: 135 días en las calles de Venezuela (2019); The Passion and Death of Rahman the Kurd (2009); Femmes: Les Grands Mythes à travers le Monde (1987); and Agua, silencio, memoria y Felisberto Hernández (1986).