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Sirwan Kajjo

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Sirwan Kajjo is a journalist and researcher who focuses on Kurdish politics, Islamic militancy, extremism, and conflict in the Middle East and beyond. He has worked for a number of news outlets and research centers in Washington DC and abroad, and has written two book chapters on Syrian Kurdish politics, published by Indiana University Press and Cambridge University Press.

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