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Articles by Chris Bohjalian

Literary Corner

The Red Lotus

February 27, 2020 Chris Bohjalian 2

When my great friend, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, was kind enough to ask me for an excerpt from my new novel, The Red Lotus, for the Weekly, I knew I needed to provide the prologue to […]

Op-Eds

Bohjalian: Putting a Face on the Refugee Crisis

October 16, 2016 Chris Bohjalian 3

BURLINGTON, Vt. (Burlington Free Press)—For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we have seen them stunned into silence by warfare […]

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Bohjalian: Murder Cannot Be Hid Long. The Truth Will Out.

June 4, 2015 Chris Bohjalian 15

The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2015: A Century of Resistance In March I spent three days at “Responsibility 2015,” the conference on the Armenian Genocide sponsored by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation held in Manhattan. At […]

Opinion

Bohjalian: A Little Hope amidst the Monastery Debris

August 29, 2014 Chris Bohjalian 8

The other day I watched an eight-year-old boy named Ulash (pronounced Oo-lush) spontaneously take a white plastic grocery bag and fill it with potato chip wrappers, cigarette butts, and crushed plastic water bottles. This was […]

Opinion

Bohjalian: The boulder’s big, but our children can move it

August 31, 2013 Chris Bohjalian 0

A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange old woman and discovers there a wall of cages with dogs trapped inside–and a small carpet on the floor that has […]

Opinion

Bohjalian: Shining a Light on the Shadow of Denial

May 13, 2013 Chris Bohjalian 2

The Armenian Weekly April 2013 Magazine One night in November 2009, I heard Gerda Weissmann Klein speak in Austin, Texas, at the Hillel chapter at the University of Texas. Gerda is not only one of […]

Opinion

Bohjalian: Forrest Gump Goes to Beirut

December 17, 2012 Chris Bohjalian 3

We all have a little Forrest Gump in us. A bit of Leonard Zelig. We’ve all had those moments when, suddenly, we are not merely witnesses to an instant fraught with meaning, but we are […]

Opinion

500 Years: A Celebration of Ink and Paper and Glue

September 6, 2012 Chris Bohjalian 1

Special Issue: Celebrating 500 Years of Armenian Printing The Armenian Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012 (Download article in PDF)  No one is ever going to confuse the Madenataran with the local neighborhood bookstore. It sits on […]

Opinion

The Kernel that Led to ‘The Sandcastle Girls’

May 2, 2012 Chris Bohjalian 7

The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2012 Sometimes my novels have positively elephantine gestation periods—and even that, in some cases, is an underestimate. A mother elephant carries her young for not quite two years; I have […]

Opinion

Bohjalian: The Exotic Boy who Became a Mad Man

September 1, 2011 Chris Bohjalian 6

Among my favorite photographs of my father is an old black and white image that was taken when he was five years old. It’s a formal portrait from 1933: He is standing between his mother […]

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