Nigol Bezjian

Nigol Bezjian is a producer, director, and a graduate of UCLA film school and School of Visual Arts. His work has been based in Beirut, Lebanon for the past several years. His most recent film is "Broken Kisses, Postponed Kisses."
Memoir

Ara Jan, Goodbye…

Beirut. October 18, 2018. Thursday. Mgrdich Ara Derderian, known as Ara Güler passed away today at the age of 90.…

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Op-Eds

My School…

They burned our homes, churches, hospitals, and schools… Words I have heard for most of my life from my grandparents,…

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Opinion

Bezjian: On the Way to Baykoz

Special for The Armenia Weekly I was in Istanbul recently as part of a Lebanese production team working on a…

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Opinion

Bezjian: The Butterfly and the Smile

Special for The Armenian Weekly The last of my dreams this morning was a strange short film. A form of…

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Opinion

Bezjian: A Walk Through Dante’s Inferno

Special to the Armenian Weekly I was recently asked to help a journalist from a Prague-based radio station do a…

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Opinion

Bezjian: Clair’s Knee and Hera’s Sneeze

I watch the news on the TV screen, see hastily taken images on hand-held mobile phones, images of hands wiping…

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Opinion

Bezjian: Madame Lucy’s Green Peas

–Sabah El Khair Abu Omar, –“Good morning to you, Ya Baron,” he responded, laboring to display his vegetables. It is…

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Opinion

Bezjian: Open Letter

I keep my commentaries related to Armenian issues within the frame of social gatherings. But lately a couple of items…

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Opinion

Bezjian: ‘Chokhurhava’ Afternoons

It was particularly cold one winter when I must have been 12 or 13 years old and for some reason…

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Opinion

Bezjian: Tales of Long Lost Soles

On June 9, the world woke up to headlines announcing the discovery of a single shoe in the village of…

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