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The Long Shadow
Author’s Note: The Long Shadow is the final book in the Shadow trilogy. The story follows twins Bedros and Dzovinar into adulthood as they travel across the landscapes of the final years of the Ottoman […]
Articles by R.P. Sevadjian
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Book Review | Eliza: A Memoir of Love and Resistance
Eliza: A Memoir of Love and Resistance By Eliza Aharon Sachaklian Gomidas Institute Books, 2021 210 pp. Paperback, $23.50 As the saying goes—they don’t make them like that any more. This memoir of Eliza Aharon […]
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Book Review | The Resistance Network
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 By Khatchig Mouradian Michigan State University Press, 2021 262 pp. Hardcover, $44.95 Resistance and humanitarianism are two words which conjure up certain expectations […]
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Book Review: La Fanfare du Négus
La Fanfare du Négus By Boris Adjemian EHESS, 2013 350 pp. $28.17 paperback This book, in French, is an interesting analysis—in the field of diaspora studies—of the Armenian community of Ethiopia in the nineteenth and […]
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Book Review: I Want to Die with a Flag
I Want to Die with a Flag Ethiopia: My Delusions and Disillusionment By Vartkes Nalbandian Independently published, 2019 210 pp. $15.95 paperback This brave and outspoken account of life under different regimes in Ethiopia is […]
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Book Review: Feast of Ashes
Feast of Ashes The Life and Art of David Ohannessian By Sato Moughalian 2019 440 pp., Redwood Press $21.88 hardcover Feast of Ashes is a historian’s book, packed with detail, new information and useful illustrations. […]
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Book Review: The Seamstress of Ourfa
The Seamstress of Ourfa Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss Armida Publications, 2018 Here, at last, is a book about strong Armenian women. Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss has written the story of her maternal family’s origins in Ourfa, a […]
Reviews
Book Review: Hadjian’s ‘Secret Nation’
Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian I.B. Tauris, 2018 592 pages Avedis Hadjian’s writing is so beautiful and touching that reading the introduction to his new book “Secret Nation” brought tears to […]
News
Bedros Sevadjian’s Gold Tray on Display at Buckingham Palace
In “Jeweler to an Emperor: Bedros A. Sevadjian (1918-1977),” (Armenian Weekly, Aug. 15, 2016), I wrote about the gold tray that Emperor Haile Selassie commissioned from my father, Bedros Sevadjian, as a gift to Queen […]
Special Reports
The Story of a Silver Wreath: An Ethiopian Emperor, and an Armenian Jeweler
Special for the Armenian Weekly The Museum Resource Center in Washington D.C. hosted a reception on June 15 in honor of my father, Bedros Sevadjian, jeweler and silversmith “By Appointment to His Imperial Majesty Haile […]