Syria's Kurds, Arabs find common cause in battle for language rights - Al-Monitor

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DARAYYA/RUKNEDDINE, Syria — Language rights have become the new battleground between Syria's Kurds and Damascus. Students in Kurdish-majority towns and cities across the northeast keep taking to the streets to protest laws that sharply curtail education in their mother tongue. From Qamishli to Kobani, children who were taught in Kurdish during 14 years of quasi-independence are furious at an Aug. 27 ministerial decree, the first of its kind in Syria's modern history, that allows three hours a week of Kurdish as a second language. Many are boycotting classes and demanding that the old curriculu…