On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Zeynep Kaya, Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. Zeynep is the author of the wonderful Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism, published by Cambridge University Press in the summer of 2020. On this episode, Simon and Zeynep talk about her new book, exploring the evolution of Kurdish identity, being supervised by Fred Halliday, protest, the Mahabad Republic and much more!