THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 227: Iraqi Kurdistan in Crisis w/ Djene Bajalan and Stefan Bertram Lee

Djene and Stefan talk to Datsan Jasim, Lana Askari, and Abdulla Hawez about the ongoing protests in Iraqi Kurdistan and the broader social, political, and economic history of the region.   Dastan Jasim Doctoral Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg and Doctoral Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She works on the political culture of Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey and has been a conflict researcher for the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, focusing on the Kurdish conflict in Syria and the war against ISIS since 2017.   Lana Askari Lana Askari has a PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media from the University of Manchester. Her PhD research focused on how people in Iraqi Kurdistan imagine and plan their future in times of crisis, for which she produced the films “Bridge to Kobane” (2016) and “Future Factory” (2018). She currently works for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.   Abdulla Hawez Abdulla Hawez is a researcher with a private consultancy firm in London, focusing on Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. He has worked with the BBC World Service and The Daily Beast as a journalist. He was also co-founded Yalla news organization in 2014.     About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube!   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Read Jason's Work here:  https://jasonmyles.medium.com/   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/   Follow Djene Bajalan @djenebajalan Follow Kuba Wrzesniewski @DrKuba2