... despite its differences from the previous discursive constitutions of Muslim women in US media. ozum.yesiltas@tamuc.edu Copyright © 2022 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2022 Rojava gender Kurdistan Orientalism Although the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014...

... the Turkish state and the Kurdish political movement, along with the Kurdish uprising in Rojava, northern Syria, has strengthened the Kurdish youth movement. Several respondents stressed that young Kurdish women and men have become fearless as a result of their experiences during the 1990s, a period...

... uprising. In Rojava or Syrian Kurdistan, female fighters make up around a third of the PYD’s force, roughly fifteen thousand female troops. Female fighters are deployed at checkpoints and guard key buildings (Kastrinou et al. 2014 ). By encouraging women to join its armed forces, the PYD emulates...