(1) Maxmûr refugee camp hosts approx. 15,000 civilians that settled on this deserty piece of land between Erbil and Kirkuk after fleeing Turkey during the "dark 1990s". This news is worth contexualizing, here some notes from my field work there: https://twitter.com/rosaburc/status/1250416187936092162

(2) Neglected by international organizations, subjected to a strict embargo from the Kurdish regional government, under constant threat of attacks by ISIS and surveilled by Turkish drones, Maxmûr refugee camp is the epitome of statelessness within statelessness.

(3) Despite all odds the inhabitants of the camp demonstrated self-sufficiency by turning their shelters into homes, unsettling all conflating notions of nation/state/territory for almost 4 decades now.

(4) The fact that Kurds from one part of Kurdistan became refugees in another part of Kurdistan, have been cordoned off from the rest of the world, yet perform survival in the most creative & politically articulate way, is why Maxmûr symbolizes all layers of the Kurdish question.

@MakhmourCamp