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The Syrian Kurds Are Winning! Jonathan Steele Newsha Tavakolian/Magnum Photos Kurdish fighters in the Women’s Protection Unit during their daily drills at Shilan Camp, in the border region of Andivar, Rojava, Syria, summer 2015 Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War by Michael M. Gunter London: Hurst, 169 pp., $50.00 (distributed in the US by Oxford University Press) Anyone searching for a sliver of light in the darkness of the Syrian catastrophe has no better place to go than the country’s northeast. There some 2.2 million Kurds have created a quasi state that is astonishingly safe—and strangely unknown abroad. No barrel bombs are dropped by Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes. No ISIS executioners enforce the wearing of the niqab. No Turkish air strikes send civilians running, as Turkish attacks on Kurdish militia bases do across the border in Iraq. Safety is of course a relative concept. Car bombs and suicide attacks by ISIS assassins regu