The Prince of Wentworth Street By John Christie Plaidswede Publishing, 2020 177 pp. Armenians have been testifying and writing family histories almost since the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Zabel Yessayan famously spent long days and nights […]
Consider the following two books by author David Kherdian: Homage to Adana is a deep dive into the essence of the immigrant experience, told through a series of lyrical poems. Right Now, on the other […]
A Place Called Gyumri: Life in the Armenian Mountains By Knarik O. Meneshian Hairenik Press, 2020 276 pp. $35 Knarik Meneshian’s A Place Called Gyumri: Life in the Armenian Mountains is an absolutely fabulous account […]
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 […]
Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach By Aris Janigian Regent Press Printers & Publishers, 2019 200 pp. $15.95 paperback Whether it’s Bloodvine (2003)—Aris Janigian’s first novel of immigrants trying to make it in […]
Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan By Jennifer M. Dixon Cornell University Press, 2018 276 pp. $55.00 hardcover They say never to judge a book by its cover. But if you […]
The Armenian Highland: Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic of 1918 By Matthew Karanian Stone Garden Press; First edition (April 15, 2019) Hardcover, $49.95 I first met Matthew Karanian at the Hairenik offices in […]
Home Again: Armenian Recipes from the Ottoman Empire By Mari A. Firkatian CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018 350 pp. $64.00 paperback ‘Home Again: Armenian Recipes from the Ottoman Empire’ by Mari A. Firkatian is part […]
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 […]
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