This week our Programme Director, Dr. Nik Matheou, sat down in conversation with Dr. Özlem Belçim Galip, a Kurdish academic with experience studying Armenian and Kurdish identities, social movements and representations. Led into the field through her Armenian tattoo, Ozlem has published multiple books and continues to observe and document the range of relationships between politics and identity.
Comparing Kurdish and Armenian relationships in the present day have only made way for more understanding of how they became so, with reference to historical events used as divisive techniques that both communities have been able to overcome.
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