| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 min. 3 sec.) ; 117368210 bytes |
| Summary |
Few things unsettle the male mind like a lady in arms. The Kurds of northern Iraq have long recognised this principle and incorporated it into their quest to build a Kurdish homeland in the overlap between Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Fighting alongside their male comrades in a region not exactly known for its progressive stance on women's rights, the female Peshmerga guerrillas of the Kurdish Liberation movement built a reputation for themselves in the '70s and '80s. This documentary shines a light on the youngest of these new Kurdish guerrilla groups, PJAK, the Free Life for Kurdistan Party, to see how their female fighters are helping their people draft a definitive answer to the Kurdish Question that's vexed Middle Eastern politics for the last century |
| Event |
Broadcast 2017-02-05 at 23:05:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: M |
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Documentary television programs.
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Political and social views.
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Political parties.
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Women guerrillas.
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Women soldiers -- Training of.
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Women, Kurdish -- Social conditions.
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Iran.
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Iraq.
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Syria -- Aleppo.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Morton, T. (Thomas), host
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