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The Zor Effect
Reflections upon reading the 10th anniversary edition of ‘Black Dog of Fate’
I first read Peter Balakian’s memoir Black Dog of Fate as an undergraduate student at Haigazian University in Beirut almost a decade ago. In January 2009, when I received an advance copy of the 10th anniversary edition of the memoir—which now had two new chapters on the author’s trip to Lebanon and Syria in 2005—I decided to suppress my lazy urge to only read the new chapters, and instead reread the entire
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Very moving piece! Thanks for posting it.
Turks walking in Der Zor to commemorate the victims of 1915. That’s such a powerful statement! I hope more and more people in Turkey read this article.
An extremely moving write-up! I think the Turks shall go in their thousands and tens of thousands to pay homage to the victims of the horrific genocide of 1915. I hope that in the near future, every adult literate Turk reads this article.
I understand very well what the Armenian people have gone through, as we Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir also had to face a genocide and we are permanently exiled from the land of our forefathers.