Can the Kurdish Women’s Movement Transform the Middle East?
Matthew Broomfield reviews a book on the Kurdish women's movement, which challenges hierarchical, patriarchal society.
Author: Matthew Broomfield
Matthew Broomfield is a British freelance journalist, critic, translator and poet, focused on the Kurdish issue. He has reported from Kurdistan for VICE, the Independent and the New Statesman, along with critical essays for Unherd, Salvage and the National Interest, among others. He spent three years living and working in Syrian Kurdistan as cofounder of the Rojava Information Center, the region’s top independent, English-language news source; as an award-winning poet published a collection of poetry (Brave little sternums: poems from Rojava) based on his time in the region; and as a fluent Kurdish speaker and translator, regularly appears in the Kurdish press as an analyst.