The second meeting for the AY 2026 of the ILCAA Joint Research Project "Everyday Forms of Ethnicity and Religiosity in Kurdistan: Comparative Inquiries into Social Organization of Cultural Difference and Crossborder Interaction in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey" (Project Website) will host Dr. Marouf Cabi, a researcher at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Marouf Cabi, a PhD in history from the University of St Andrews, has published two books, most recently Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance (I.B. Tauris, 2024), and multiple journal articles.
See his profile at:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/marouf-cabi
Presentation: Marouf Kabi - "Kurdish Political Movements, Semi-Sovereignty, and Armed Struggle: Iranian Kurdistan after the 1979 Revolution"
Discussant: Yasuyuki Matsunaga (TUFS-GDC)
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Time: 16:00-18:30
Location: Room 301, ILCAA. On-site participation only.
(Building #6 on this campus map)
Language: English
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This event is co-sponsored by the JFE 21st Century Foundation Grant Research "The Geopolitical Location and Socio-Religious Changes in Southern Kurdistan" and the Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Global Democratic Change (GDC), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Inquiries: gdc@tufs.ac.jp