Book Review: The 21
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs By Martin Mosebach, Translated by Alta L. Price Plough Publishing House, 2019 272 pp. $15.00 hardcover On February 15, 2015, militants of the Islamic State […]
The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs By Martin Mosebach, Translated by Alta L. Price Plough Publishing House, 2019 272 pp. $15.00 hardcover On February 15, 2015, militants of the Islamic State […]
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 […]
My interest in Komitas has been evolving since I was a young bride. I used to witness my mother-in-law Kayane proudly show off Komitas’ pictures, which were inscribed to his “sister, Marig.” Marig was Kayane’s […]
As a young Armenian American attending a public school in Cranston, Rhode Island, it always frustrated me that the Armenian Genocide, a part of my family’s history, was never taught by any of my teachers. […]
On April 25, 1915, just a day after the mass arrest of Armenian leaders in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, a large force of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) landed […]
Being alone means fear clouding everything My eyes feel heavy like I am heavily medicated Almost like they, as their own people, are pressured to stay open I am pressured to converse with my eyes, […]
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California By Mark Arax 2019 576 pp., Knopf $21.23 hardcover For two summers in a row, I had the privilege of acting as an interpreter for a […]
My first memories of my maternal grandfather—the renowned Kütahya ceramicist David Ohannessian, who founded the art of Jerusalem Armenian ceramics in 1919—were tied to the few pieces of brilliantly glazed pottery that occupied an honored […]
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
The Missing Pages The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript From Genocide to Justice Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh 2019 436 pp. Stanford University Press The story of my new book The Missing Pages: The Modern Life […]
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