Kaziwa Salih

Kaziwa Salih is an anthropologist who holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University in Canada with a focus on the cultural sociology of genocidal violence against the Kurds in Iraq. After publishing a predictive article about the emergence of Islamic radicalism such as ISIS in her magazine Nivar, Salih was imprisoned by the Kurdish authorities. On her release, she fled the country.

She is the award-winning author of several fiction and non-fiction books. Salih was a founder and editor-in-chief of two journals, Nivar and Newkar. Her research interests include Genocide Studies, Cultural-Sociology and Cultural-Psychology of Violence, Migration and Displacement, Kurdish Studies, Middle East Politics and Women’s Identity, Ethnic Conflicts, State and Non-State Actors, and Yazidi Affairs.