The Kurds are a people without a country, yet their fate affects that of many nations. They were Saddam Hussein+s victims and now, with the election of Jalal Talabani as the President of Iraq, they are an integral part of the new order. Kevin McKiernan has reported on the Kurds for many years and here produces a complex portrait of a people, their history, and their search for a homeland, the lost Kurdistan. McKiernan shows why the fate of the Kurds remains a central piece in the Middle East puzzle, equal in importance and similar in history to the plight of the Palestinians. Having traveled in the Middle East for many years, McKiernan was able to interview leaders such as Talabani as well as to have conversations with ordinary Kurds-shop owners, hotel clerks, etc.-to produce a picture of
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