Panel: The Importance of Native Kurdish Language
in Cultural Reflections under Colonialism
Dr. Kamal Soleimani specializes in Islamic and Middle Eastern history and politics. He holds a PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern history from Columbia University (2014) and has taught at Turkish and American universities. He is currently a professor-researcher at El Colegio de México. He is the author of several books examining the pivotal role of Islam in the rise of nationalism among Arabs, Turks, and Kurds. His scholarly articles that have appeared in major academic journals including Security Dialogue, Current Anthropology, Nations and Nationalism, Third World Quarterly, Ethnicities, British Journal of Sociology, Postcolonial Studies, Middle East Studies, and The Muslim World.
Dr. Cevat Dargın is a historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa, focusing on the transformation from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule in the early twentieth century. He earned his PhD in Middle Eastern studies at Princeton University in 2021. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University and is writing a book exploring the formation of the modern state at the intersection of race, religion, and territory in the late Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman territories.
