Part I: The Long Struggle for Autonomy 1. Backgrounds and Methods of Social Science Research in a War Zone 2. Kurds, Arabs, Armenians and Assyrians: Rojava as a Part of the Ethnic Diversity 3. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Aleivis and Ezidi: Religious Pluralism in Rojava 4. Kurdistan: Land Without State or Land Against the State 5. Syrian-Kurdistan Under French Protectorate 6. Kurds in Independent Syria 7. In the Cross-Hair Pointer of Panarabism: From the United Arab Republic to Baathism 8. Special Census and Statelessness 9. Kurds Under Baathist Rule 10. Between Two Short Springs: Rojava Under Bashar Al-Assad 11. The Landscape of Kurdish Political Parties 12. From Revolution to Civil War Part II: Voices from Rojava 13. Rojava, Quo Vadis? sakriti opis