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Varak Ketsemanian
Varak Ketsemanian is a graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2014-2016). His master’s thesis titled “Communities in Conflict: the Hunchakian Revolutionary Party 1890-1894” examines the socio-economic role of violence in shaping inter-communal and ethnic relations by doing a local history of the Armenian Revolutionary Movement in the Ottoman Empire. Ketsemanian’s work tackles problems such as the development and polarization of mainstream historiographies, inter-communal stratifications, nationalism, and the relationship of the Ottoman State with some of its Anatolian provinces. He is currently completing a PhD at Princeton University, where his doctoral dissertation will focus on the social history of the National Constitution of Ottoman Armenians in 1863, and the communal dynamics/mechanisms that it created on imperial, communal, and provincial levels. Ketsemanian’s research relates to the development of different forms of nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, revolutionary violence, and constitutional movements.
Latest posts by Varak Ketsemanian (see all)
- Memoirs of a Soldier: Bedros Haroian’s recollections of the Great War available in English - September 1, 2022
- Armenia a Century on: Lessons in Challenging the Status Quo - May 28, 2018
- The First Republic as Turning Point for the Armenian Nation: A Conversation with Professor Richard G. Hovannisian - May 28, 2018
if you look at the DNA make-up of the middle eastern people I would estimate over a quarter of Iranians, Arabs, Turks have Armenian genes, of coarse only the smarter and more handsome ones,
in the end we were not able to convert them to our religion but Islam had more success we used the Cross they instead used the sword
Our beloved Raffi wrote in the late 1870s about the conversion of the Dersim Armenians. For more information see my book Raffi: The Prophet from Payajuk.
I am the chair of Croydon Alevi Centre in London UK. I am also member of Dervis Cemal Ocak in Dersim. The summary of this book sound very interesting as my family always remind us that the only diffrence between Armenians and Alevies is the practice of circumcision. ..atherwise we are the same prople…
Mahmut
I met about 50 Turkish families while touring the Greek Islands curiosity forced me to chat with them with the little Turkish language I manage…the ones I spoke with were from Sepastia (Sivaz)they told me …If one can backtrack the Alevi Identity almost without exception one will find our Armenian origins …how true ? more and more it being validated…
Dear Mister Meneshian, I will be happy to have more information on your book. with kind regards M.Kerivel Erwan
I want also to thank Mister Ketsemanian for this article on my work and also Armenian Weekly staff for publishing it.
With much interest I read Varak Ketsemanians article about Erwan Kerivels book of the history of the Alevis. Two things impressed me most: With pleasure I noticed that Varak at the end of his article is NOT saying this, but… which in former times often let Armenian writers express that Armenians are different and better than their neighbours. Secondly it is wonderful to notice that since some years these former neighbours like Pontosgreeks, Alevis and Kurds have stopped speaking about their differences, but that they now all finally stress, we were and are all victims of the Ottoman Turks. That´s the right development for the future !