Mari R. Rostami is Associate Member at Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact. She is a graduate of the University of Exeter where she obtained her Master’s and PhD degrees in Kurdish Studies. She also holds an MA in English literature from the University of Tehran and a BA in English from Razi University.
This is a well-written and, given the recent independence referendum in Kurdistan, a timely study of nationalist expression in Kurdish theatre in Iraq. * Stephen Elliot Wilmer, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, and author of Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (2002) and Performing Statelessness in Europe (2018). *