Jordi Tejel

Jordi Tejel Gorgas is a historian specializing in modern history, state/society relations, and state-building in the Middle East.

He is often cited in the media in relation to Kurdish state-building and Syrian Kurds.

He holds a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and from University of Fribourg.

His most recent books include Irak, chronique d’un chaos annoncé (Lavauzelle, 2006), Le mouvement kurde de Turquie en exil.

History, Politics and Society (Routledge, 2009), and Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges (edited with Peter Sluglett, Riccardo Bocco, and Hamit Bozarslan, World Scientific Press, 2012).