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Lalai Manjikian

Lalai Manjikian

Dr. Lalai Manjikian is a humanities professor at Vanier College in Montreal. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of immigration and refugee studies, media representations of migration, migrant narratives and diaspora studies. She is the author of Collective Memory and Home in the Diaspora: The Armenian Community in Montreal (2008). Lalai’s articles have been published in a number of newspapers and journals including The Armenian Weekly, Horizon Weekly, 100 Lives (The Aurora Prize), the Montreal Gazette, and Refuge. A former Birthright Armenia participant (2005), over the years, Lalai has been active in volunteering both within the Armenian community in Montreal and the local community at large, namely engaged in immigrant and refugee integration. She previously served as a qualitative researcher on the Armenian Diaspora Survey in Montreal. Lalai also serves as a board member for the Foundation for Genocide Education. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University (2013).

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  1. Enjoyed reading your article about your grandfather in Montreal. In 2002, there was an Armenian documentary that won first place for foreign documentary and music at the Moondance Film Festival in Colorado. The CD is entitled, “The Handjian Story”.It is about the lives of two survivors of the Genocide, Kourken from Erzinga and Malvine from Izmir (Smyrna) relating what they experienced. Kourken as an orphan and Malvine witnessing the burning of Izmir in 1922 lead them eventually to Greece, later to France and then in 1957 to the United States. A compelling CD, a must for all to see and hear, especially with the upcoming Genocide Centennial. This CD would be an excellent tool for teaching about the “inhumanities” committed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The CD has English sub-titled so that all can follow it well. The composer and producer of the Handjian Story is Denise Gentilini, the grand-daughter of the Handjians. To get a copy of this CD, you can contact her in Colorado, her phone number is 1 818 517- 7749

  2. Thank you Lalai! Beautifully captured, and speaks to all our hearts. What a gift you have given the memories of your family by capturing their stories and survival.

  3. I was touched very much with this article because I have experienced the same things with my orphan father who was born in the famous Armenian city of Van and later he was found in the Syrian desert by the Arab Beduins. Every year he had twice or three time nightmares and he cried saying ” do not kill me please do not kill me “and that was the effect of the genocide.

  4. This is what I wrote to the director of ITS
    Message: Hello , There is something that your treasurer dr. Edward Erickson stated on February 5th lecture at Georgetown university that I could not get out of my mind. In response to his thoughts of the Armenian genocide , he stated some mornings he believes it occurred and other mornings not so much. How can he make such a callous response to something that has been clearly documented even in turkey let alone by many governments globally. This matter is no longer even considered to be debatable let alone having someone like dr.erickson representing Turkey with such infallible comments. I was very surprised that he dared try to remove mrs. nahapetian from the room. I personally would be very embarrassed to have someone like dr.erickson representing the great country of Turkey with such insipid comments and behavior. P

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