The Armenian Weekly August 2013 Magazine
Ever since I saw Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece, "Empire of the Sun," as a child, the subject of war and its effects on children and civilians has been a theme of constant research and preoccupation. It’s not so much war’s mythos that makes for good cinema, but the "war after war’s end" that has both disturbed and inspired me to write. This is what triggered my first journey to Nagorno-Karabagh in the late 1990’s, as a student at USC Film Sch
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Eric, jan. Thanks for all the great humanitarian work that you do!
You give voice to so very many noble causes through your art and have the ability to keep the “spirit” true and alive. Artak is just one of the heroes that you have introduced us to.
Touching story about Artak. I agree with Eric’s assessment about the need to assist the Syrian-Armenians. Despite what it means to live in the diaspora for many Armenians, there is now an opportunity to energize a well thought out socio-political strategy to revitalize a repatriation movement in earnest. Equally, from what the Armenian government has learned of its history of repatriation (namely the one after WWII), positive steps to this end can be achieved!