Travel
The Name of This Place
The Opening Over the course of ten months in 2014-2015, I traveled to Turkey three times. I went to reconnect with the land where my grandparents had been born and the places they had fled—my […]
Articles by Nancy Kricorian
Obituaries
Diana Der Hovanessian: Dispensing Grace
Editor’s Note: Famed Armenian-American poet and author Diana Der Hovanessian passed away on March 1 in Cambridge, Mass. Der Hovanessian was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than […]
Culture
Kricorian: Stories from the Armenian Quarter
The following piece by New York-based novelist, essayist, and activist Nancy Kricorian will be published in the upcoming anthology This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. *** G […]
Op-Eds
Turkey’s Renewed War on the Kurds
Special for the Armenian Weekly In June 2014, during an Armenian Heritage Trip with seasoned guide Armen Aroyan, I was part of a group that traveled throughout Turkey, covering perhaps one-third of the country, including […]
Op-Eds
Choosing ‘Co-Resistance’ Rather than ‘Turkish-Armenian Dialogue’
Competing Narratives of Suffering The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2015: A Century of Resistance A global non-governmental and governmental regime has arisen to promote “dialogue,” “reconciliation,” and various “peace processes” among peoples in conflict. I […]
Interviews
Pursuing Justice in a Culture of Impunity: Ivan Karakashian of ‘Defense for Children International Palestine’
Special for the Armenian Weekly This past summer during the height of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” against the Gaza Strip, I noticed the name Ivan Karakashian, advocacy unit coordinator of Defense for Children International Palestine […]
Opinion
Bourj Hammoud: Fiction as Restoration Project
My working method as a novelist has become clearer to me with each new book. Like a bird building a nest, I collect scraps and fragments of stories from people who have lived through a […]
Culture
Peniche Anako: An Armenian Home Away from Home
When I was in Paris in May, my friend Virginia Pattie Kerovpyan invited me to join her on the Peniche Anako for a jazz concert. The Peniche Anako is a canal barge docked on the […]
Opinion
‘All the Light There Was’ (Chapter I)
The Armenian Weekly features Chapter I of Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, All the Light There Was. The novel will be released on March 12, 2013. All the Light There Was is the story of an […]
Opinion
Kricorian: A Candle in Dark Times
While doing research on the uses of political violence by “non-state actors” for my second novel Dreams of Bread and Fire, I came across a 1984 French documentary entitled “Terrorists in Retirement” (original title “Des […]