Jordi Tejel
Jordi Tejel Gorgas is a historian specializing in modern history, state/society relations, and state-building in the Middle East. He is often cited in the media in relation to Kurdish state-building and Syrian Kurds.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Background
Tejel is currently professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva. He was previously a research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He's also been a lecturer at the University of Fribourg, the University of Neuchâtel and again in Fribourg. He holds a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and from University of Fribourg.
Work
His most recent books include Irak, chronique d’un chaos annoncé (Lavauzelle, 2006), Le mouvement kurde de Turquie en exil. Continuités et discontinuités du nationalisme kurde sous le mandat français en Syrie et au Liban (1925-1946) (Peter Lang, 2007), Syria’s Kurds. History, Politics and Society (Routledge, 2009), and Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (edited with Peter Sluglett, Riccardo Bocco, and Hamit Bozarslan, World Scientific Press, 2012).
References
- Gouëset, Catherine (22 October 2014). "Les ambiguïtés de la Turquie face aux djihadistes de l'EI". L'Express.
- Gouëset, Catherine (5 November 2012). "Syrie: quelle place pour la minorité Kurde?". L'Express.
- Cheterian, Vicken (May 2013). "Chance historique pour les Kurdes". Le Monde Diplomatique.
- Cole, Isabel (7 August 2012). "Syrian Kurd party says Turkey should not fear its rise". Reuters.
- Coles, Isabel (11 February 2013). "Fuel, food aid draw Iraq, Syria Kurds closer". Reuters.
- Alexander, Caroline (June 26, 2013). "Syria's Forgotten People Seize Opportunity on Assad Decay". Bloomberg.
- van Wilgenburg, Wladimir (April 5, 2013). "Conflict Intensifies in Kurdish Area of Syria". Al-Monitor.