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Jean-Baptiste Begat

Begat

a student in history at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and is currently on an exchange year at the University of Oxford. He is researching the Kurdish question in Iraq at the time of the British mandate.

Comment: An inconsistent British strategy in Iraq undermined any attempt at unification in Kurdistan, and their orientalist gaze saw the Kurds as ultimately incapable of claiming self-rule, writes Jean-Baptiste Begat

31 May, 2016