Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, which was a New York Times Best Seller and winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize. He is the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He teaches at Colgate University.
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A letter to Pashinyan

Dear Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan: Having read your remarks as quoted in the Armenian American and diasporan press, I would…

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Opinion

A Broken Connection: The Armenian Financial Community and the Making of Culture

When the Illinois Holocaust Museum asked me in the late summer of 2012 if I would be the advising scholar…

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Opinion

Balakian: Obama’s Approach to Affirming the Genocide Takes Things Further Than Any Other President Has

Peter Baker’s article, “Obama Marks Genocide Without Saying the Word” (New York Times, April 24, 2010), like most of the…

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Opinion

Balakian: Remembering Hrant Dink

The article below is based on a speech delivered by Prof. Peter Balakian during a panel discussion on the legacy…

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