About the Author

Michael M. Gunter is a professor of Political Science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is the author of many critically praised scholarly books on the Kurdish question, the most recent being The Kurds Ascending: A Historical Dictionary of the Kurds and, with Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, The Kurdish Spring.

Reviews

'Out of Nowhere is the latest of Michael Gunter's many important studies of the Kurds. This timely book puts the dramatic developments of the last two years in Syria's Kurdistan in historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural context. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the dynamic role of the Kurds in a changing Middle East.'
*Ofra Bengio, Head of the Kurdish Studies program at the Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University*