Title: Trapped-Between-Map-Reality-Geography and Perceptions of Kurdistan.
Author: Maria T. O’Shea
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Routledge
Release date: 2004

The events of the past decades have left little doubt about the role of the Kurdish people in shaping the complex history of the Middle East. Repeatedly and in various ways the Kurds, so often perceived as victims, have shown their capacity and readiness to be actors in matters that concern them. Their activities, perhaps together with the efforts of Western journalism and scholarship in the past decade, have undoubtedly had the effect of putting the Kurds ‘on the map’ as far as Western public opinion is concerned..
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