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Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution
by Marcel Cartier
(Zero Books, £10.99)
“SERKEFTIN” in the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish means “victory” and for this book’s author Marcel Cartier it’s a word describing the direction of travel of the Rojava revolution.
US-born, Cartier now lives in Berlin, where he’s a journalist for Redfish Media and a hip-hop artist. But in spring 2017 he travelled for a month in the predominately Kurdish areas of northern Syria to touch base with the radical grassroots revolution there.
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