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.
I read this clear article …I like every Armenian to read…
I like to send my poem about Human rights to Mr. Rupen Janbazian
A Human’s Rights
Do not seize me in your cave
Open your door let me behave
To see the world in its fight
To try to protect every human right!
Let me grasp a red pen in hot hands,
Writing poems to justify rationales.
Let me write to billions of inhumane breaths;
Let them feel ashamed of sinful fights.
Let the righteous rays shine on each brain cell
To guide spirits into the right light.
Let harsh minds listen every night
To symphonies praising human rights.
I am yours, always yours.
No one can grab me by force.
I like to scream very loud . . .
Human rights are everyone’s birthright.
Let my voice from my heartiest soul,
Reach farther than both polar sites.
Let tears of the speakers on human rights
Flow like waterfalls on starved lands.
Don’t hide me in an unsown cave
I’m kind and heartily brave
I have genes to know every right,
From sunshine to moonlight.
Let all raise the faithful flag of human rights
In the suppressed corners of Crying Crowds
To detect, narrate, and prevent birthing crimes.
Let slayers confess past deeds, thus prevent further genocides*.
(C) Sylva Portoian -Shuhaiber, MD,MSc,MFPHM,FRCP.CH (UK) (Pediatrician & Poet)
Winner of The Carnegie Poetry Prize, Spring 2009
Twenty Historical Poetry Books in three languages globally.
and 10 medical articles in international journals including The Lancet.
Remembrance-Day for The Armenian Genocide on April 24, 1915.