Reflections

Chidem Inch: Kharpert in Winter

I just changed the wallpaper photo on my personal laptop. I changed it to a winter scene of Kharpert when the Armenians lived there. My guess is it was just after a snowfall as the branches of the trees are still heavy with snow. There is a lone man riding a horse down the road. Being far removed from agrarian roo

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Mark Gavoor

Mark Gavoor is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management at North Park University in Chicago. He is an avid blogger and oud player.

2 Comments

  1. Thank you Mark. Your photo and brief explanation brought back memories of my grandmother Araksi reminiscing about the veri and vari kaghak life with us her grandchildren. Your article brought back her voice to me and reminds us of the terrible dispossession of our ancestral land we suffer still. I hear her saying Afareem!

  2. Wonderful. Thank you Mark. My Hussenig (Kharpert) born grandmother used her own means to duplicate this in the new world! Her father attended Euphrates/Yeprad College at Mezreh; she was trained as a nurse as one of the orphans they took in after the Genocide

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