The door of an Armenian house in Hancepek, Diyarbekir (Photo: Mujgan Arpat)
Editorial published in the Armenian Weekly's April 2009 Magazine
I can’t stop looking at Mujgan Arpat’s photographs of doors and windows of old Armenian houses in Diyarbekir (p. 30 of April 2009 magazine). They seem to have the immediacy of a Komitas song, a Daniel Varoujan poem, a page from Krikor Zohrab’s stories.
I feel a
Khatchig Mouradian is the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress and a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies, New York University. Mouradian is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918, published in 2021. The book has received the Syrian Studies Association “Honourable Mention 2021.” In 2020, Mouradian was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on late-Ottoman history, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.