Memoir
Ara Jan, Goodbye…
Beirut. October 18, 2018. Thursday. Mgrdich Ara Derderian, known as Ara Güler passed away today at the age of 90. The story of my meeting the giant photographer took place many years ago, in Aleppo […]
Articles by Nigol Bezjian
Op-Eds
My School…
They burned our homes, churches, hospitals, and schools… Words I have heard for most of my life from my grandparents, their friends, the genocide survivors I had interviewed, read about in history books and memoirs, […]
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 mobile phone commercial for a third country. Normally this would have taken place in Lebanon, […]
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 classroom glob white in color like a mother’s milk, yet transparent like a pure glass […]
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 report on the Syrian-Armenian refugees in Beirut. She wanted to meet all sorts of folks—wealthy, […]
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 blood, hands carrying guns, hands begging for life, hands and palms pushing and shoving left […]
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 that time of year again, when the greengrocers pile up fresh green peas delivered directly […]
Opinion
Bezjian: Open Letter
I keep my commentaries related to Armenian issues within the frame of social gatherings. But lately a couple of items I read in the news made me think that I should share them publicly. To […]
Opinion
Bezjian: ‘Chokhurhava’ Afternoons
It was particularly cold one winter when I must have been 12 or 13 years old and for some reason visited my paternal Aunt Mary’s dwelling more frequently in “Khan el Borghol” (Cracked Wheat Inn), […]
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 Areni in Armenia. Scientists say it was from nearly 5,500 years old, placing it right […]