Varak Ketsemanian, Author at The Armenian Weekly

Varak Ketsemanian

Varak Ketsemanian is a graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2014-2016). His master’s thesis titled “Communities in Conflict: the Hunchakian Revolutionary Party 1890-1894” examines the socio-economic role of violence in shaping inter-communal and ethnic relations by doing a local history of the Armenian Revolutionary Movement in the Ottoman Empire. Ketsemanian’s work tackles problems such as the development and polarization of mainstream historiographies, inter-communal stratifications, nationalism, and the relationship of the Ottoman State with some of its Anatolian provinces. He is currently completing a PhD at Princeton University, where his doctoral dissertation will focus on the social history of the National Constitution of Ottoman Armenians in 1863, and the communal dynamics/mechanisms that it created on imperial, communal, and provincial levels. Ketsemanian’s research relates to the development of different forms of nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, revolutionary violence, and constitutional movements.

Literary Corner

Memoirs of a Soldier: Bedros Haroian’s recollections of the Great War available in English

September 1, 2022

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Memoirs of a Soldier: About the Days of Tragedy By Bedros Haroian Tadem Press, 2022 480 pp. Hardcover, $42.95 As…

Editorials

Armenia a Century on: Lessons in Challenging the Status Quo

May 28, 2018

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From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia A century after the…

Headline

The First Republic as Turning Point for the Armenian Nation: A Conversation with Professor Richard G. Hovannisian

May 28, 2018

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From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia Professor Richard Hovannisian is…

Op-Eds

Beyond Nationalism: The Case for Engaged Patriotism on the Eve of the 100th Anniversary of Statehood

July 3, 2017

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May 28 just passed and Armenians celebrated Republic Day—the holiday that commemorates the day when Armenia became a republic and…

Culture

‘Memories of a Turkish Statesman—1913-19’: A Reflection on Cemal Pasha’s Memoirs

June 28, 2016

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From the Armenian Weekly 2016 Magazine Dedicated to the 101st Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide “[As] however, in spite of…

Culture

‘Les Fils du Soleil’: An Inquiry into the Common History of the Armenians and Alevis of Dersim

September 15, 2014

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Special for the Armenian Weekly The issue of Islamized/Alevized Armenians has stirred a great deal of controversy and debate recently…

Special Reports

The Legacy of the Armenian Legion

March 10, 2014

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Special for the Armenian Weekly Much ink has been spilled on the atrocities the Armenians witnessed during World War I.…

Interviews

Remembering the Assyrian Genocide: An Interview with Sabri Atman

January 8, 2014

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Opinion

Ketsemanian: Apology

December 19, 2013

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In one of my recent articles for the Weekly, titled “Internalizing Western Armenia,” I attempted to elucidate the sense in…

Interviews

Examining ‘the Denialist Habitus in Post-Genocidal Turkey’

November 11, 2013

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An Interview with Talin Suciyan The forced eradication of the Armenians from their homeland in 1915 has generated a unique…