Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan

＂A deeply researched work of narrative nonfiction that marries the recent political history of Kurdish Iraq with the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee. Peshawa’s journey takes readers inside his people’s struggles to rebuild community and bring democracy to Iraqi Kurdistan after genocide and war＂--

Nicole F. Watts is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Activists in Office: Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey and co-editor of Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party.