Abbas Vali

Professor Abbas Vali (1950- ) is a famous Kurdish academic and political scientist.

Biography

Vali was born in Mahabad in 1950. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Sciences from Shahid Beheshti University, then called Iran National University, in 1972. He succeeded in finishing his MA in Politics in 1975. He moved to UK, where he continued his studies and managed himself to work on his doctoral thesis in the University of London. He began to teach in the department of political sciences in the University of Wales in Swansea, where he taught from 1985 to 2004, and ultimately became a Senior Lecturer in political sciences. He was Professor of political sciences in Bogazici University in Istanbul from 2004 to 2006. Publishing a number of essays and books on Kurdish nationalism, he is an expert in the politics of the modern Middle East history and politics. Prof. Vali was removed from his position as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan in Hawler (Arbil)in March 2008. He has since returned to Turkey to take up a position in Boğazici University's sociology department.

Selected Works

*"Pre-Capitalist Iran: A Theoretical History", New York: New York University Press, 1993.

*"Kurdekan u "Ewan"i tiryan: Hewyet u Siaseti Parcheparchebuu", "The Kurds and Their Others: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics", translated into Kurdish by Nazand Begikhani and Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Stockholm, Rahand, 2001.

*"Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism", (ed.), Costa Mesa, Mezda Publisher, 2003.

*"Rechelleknasi Kurdekan: Sazkirdini Netewe w Nasnamey Netewei le Nusini Mejui Kurdi da", Genealogies of the Kurds: Construction of Nation and National Identity in Kurdish Historical Writing, translated into Kurdish by Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Stockholm, 2004.
*"Modernity and the Stateless: The Kurdish Question in Iran", London, I.B. Tauris, 2004.

References

* [http://www.mazdapublisher.com/BookDetails.aspx?BookID=52 Details of Prof. Vali's "Essays on the Origins of Kurdish Nationalism"]
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=abbas+vali&x=0&y=0 Prof. Abbas Vali's books in amazon.com]
* [http://www.nyupress.org/books/Pre_Capitalist_Iran-products_id-698.html More on Prof. Vali's "Pre-Capitalist Iran"]

External links

* [http://www.ukh.ac/ University of Kurdistan - Hawler]
* [http://www.krg.org/articles/detail.asp?rnr=223&lngnr=12&anr=11136&s
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