Barzoo Eliassi's book Narratives of Statelessness and Political Otherness: Kurdish and Palestinian Experiences, published by Palgrave Macmillan, has been chosen as one of the 100 most distinguished works on the Kurds in 100 years. The book is also one of the 9 most distinguished social science works on Kurds for the last 100 years. The culture-education association Mala Kurdan that has produced this ranking is based in the municipality of Lausanne in Switzerland. The jury has consisted of academics.