Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq

List of Illustrations

ix ILLUSTRATIONS Figures (Charts and Maps) Figure 1.1 “Kurdistan,” the area recognized by Kurds as their historic homeland 4 Figure 2.1 United Nations northern Iraq map 42 Figure 3.1 Chart of the hypothetical known forebears of a Kurdish individual 68 Figure 3.2 Bushra and Loqman kin chart 71 Figure 3.3 Barwari Bala tribal area government map 92 Figure 3.4 Map produced by U.S. intelligence in the 1940s 94 Photographs Photo 1.1 An advertisement for Nokia mobile phones 10 Photo 1.2 Shanidar Cave 16 Photo 1.3 Dohuk juice bar 23 Photo 1.4 A new park and buildings in Hewler’s city center 26 Photo 2.1 Passport stamp issued to the author in 1996 granting authorization to travel to Iraq 44 Photo 2.2 Rubble from the Iraqi government’s attacks against the Kurds 54 Photo 2.3 Signs of industry, a plane landing, and a billboard trumpeting a new lifestyle 55 Photo 3.1 Boys herding sheep and goats 89 Photo 3.2 Knitting in the village 90 Photo 3.3 Village farmer posing with plow 91 Photo 4.1 Girls studying to become teachers of English 103 Photo 4.2 Shopkeepers and shoppers in the fabric section of the main bazaar 123 Photo 5.1 Men visit overlooking the town of Aqre 158 Photo 6.1 A bomb casing lies in a field near a village 178 Photo 6.2 A girl removing freshly baked bread from an earth oven 179 Photo 6.3 Shush, a village near Hewler 198 Photo 7.1 A black goat-hair tent, used for transhumant herding 217 Photo 7.2 A man walks a trail on the mountain behind his village 219 Photo 7.3 “American Village,” a new planned community 222 ILLUSTRATIONS x ...