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Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS (KAIROS) Paperback – 3 Mar. 2022

by Biehl (Author), Janet (Author)
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In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a self-governing polity that was not only multiethnic but democratic. And women were not only permitted but encouraged to participate in all social roles alongside men, including political and military roles. To implement these goals, Rojava wanted to live in peace with its neighbors. Instead, it soon faced invasion by ISIS, a force that was in every way its opposite. ISIS attacked its neighbors in Iraq and Syria, imposing theocratic, tyrannical, femicidal rule on them. Those who might have resisted fled in terror. But when ISIS attacked the mostly Kurdish city of Kobane and overran much of it, the YPG and YPJ, or people's militias, declined to flee. Instead they resisted, and several countries, seeing their valiant resistance, formed an international coalition to assist them militarily. While the YPG and YPJ fought on the ground, the coalition coordinated airstrikes with them. They liberated village after village and in March 2019 captured ISIS's last territory in Syria. Around that time, two UK-based filmmakers invited the author to spend a month in Rojava making a film. She accepted, and arrived to explore the society and interview people. During that month, she explored how the revolu tion had progressed and especially the effects of the war on the society. She found that the war had reinforced social solidarity and welded together the multiethnic, gender-liberated society. As one man in Kobane told her, 'Our blood got mixed.'
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    Kelman Library
  2. Print length
    256 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Pm Press
  5. Publication date
    3 Mar. 2022
  6. Dimensions
    17.78 x 1.27 x 25.4 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1629639443
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1629639444
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Janet Biehl, an independent scholar and artist, collaborated with the social theorist Murray Bookchin for his last nineteen years (1987-2006). After his death, she wrote his biography. Bookchin's writings influenced an ideological transformation of the Kurdish freedom movement away from Marxism and statism and toward grassroots democracy and ecology. To observe the implementation of his ideas, she visited northeastern Syria several times and chronicled her observations in numerous articles. She has also translated several German-language books about the Kurdish movement into English. Their Blood Got Mixed is her first graphic novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pm Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 3 Mar. 2022
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1629639443
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1629639444
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.27 x 25.4 cm
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ Kelman Library
  • Best Sellers Rank: 2,072,411 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer reviews:
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Janet Biehl (b. 1953) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated at Wesleyan University and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. She works as a freelance copyeditor for major book publishers and is also a translator and pen-and-ink artist.

In 1986 she met the social ecologist Murray Bookchin (b. 1921) and the following year moved to Vermont to collaborate with him. He became her mentor and partner. As a social ecologist, she wrote books and articles advocating radical democracy and an ecological reconstruction of society. After he died in 2006, she began work on his biography. "Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin" was published by Oxford University Press on October 1, 2015.

Bookchin's work has influenced the Kurdish freedom movement, for which Biehl is a sympathizer. She translates books on Kurdish issues from German into English, including "Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan" (New Compass Press, 2013) and "Revolution in Rojava" (Pluto Press, 2016). She is currently translating the three-volume memoirs of Sakine Cansiz, of which volume 1 is published by Pluto in April 2018.

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  • Jean-Paul Azam
    4.0 out of 5 stars Vive les femmes kurdes qui combattent ISIS
    Reviewed in France on 27 October 2022
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    Une belle BD qui décrit le soulèvement populaire dans la province de Rojava en Syrie du Nord Est. Suivant les idées d'Abdullah Oçalan, leader du PKK emprisonné à vie dans les geôles turques, cette armée populaire a traité les hommes et les femmes de façon égalitaire, permettant à celles-ci de montrer leur bravoure au combat, au prix d'autant de souffrances et de morts brutales que les hommes. Le livre est parfois un peu trop propagandiste, voulant légitimement donner la parole aux acteurs locaux qui défendent leurs grands principes. C'est tout-à-fait dans l'esprit de ce mouvement populaire, mais ça finit par lasser, parce que l'action elle-même n'est pas tellement représentée.
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  • Michaelbacteria
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on 15 September 2022
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    If you want to know more about the revolution in north Syria, then this is the perfect introduction!
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  • ttt23
    1.0 out of 5 stars A powerful and neat portrayal of the Rojava Revolution
    Reviewed in Japan on 28 August 2022
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    The best account of the Rojava Revolution I have read. Rendered in beautiful drawings, each an impressive artwork. These drawings help visualize scenes and stories vividly. The text accompanied them is a work of art too. Complicated stories neatly and beautifully expressed. The book as a whole is a powerful record of these brave people’s fight against barbarism, oppression, genocide, and their struggle to establish a new society based on the liberation of women and equal representation of all communities and ecological living.
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