In this memoir, author Alice Nazarian tells the story of her parents and family in the shadow of the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide. Her father, Ashur Yousuf, a prominent Assyrian intellectual and professor at Euphrates College in […]
These recently released titles were produced outside of mainstream publishing mechanisms. They remind us that Armenians can and should avail themselves of alternatives in order to achieve publication, avoid censorship and tell their stories as […]
Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond is a bastion for clarity in a world ripe with dense international relations literature and brings together specialized security scholars from across the world in […]
Alik Arzoumanian’s story begins in Lebanon, where she grew up making books for her siblings using simple markers. “We didn’t have many Armenian books back then,” she recalled in her vibrant kindergarten classroom one afternoon. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (A.W.)–Apricot jam can be delicious, but a book? How could a book be delicious? Kirk-Mirk, a children’s book publisher, writes on its website (www.kirk-mirk.com) that its mission is to “enrich Armenian children’s literature […]
(This article is about a genocide survivor who so loved his village in historic Armenia’s Sepastia that he painstakingly documented every aspect of village life for future generations. Haghtetsis had suffered 600 years of Turkish […]
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.) — Not to cast a shadow on “This American Life’s” Ira Glass, but when it comes to native Californian expose and nonfiction writing, no one else can hold a candle in the […]
Janigian’s New Novel ‘Riverbig’ Tells the Story of California’s Early Armenian Community in Epic Saga WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—It might be a bit too glib or give the wrong impression to say that Aris Janigian’s newest […]
Reflections upon reading the 10th anniversary edition of ‘Black Dog of Fate’ I first read Peter Balakian’s memoir Black Dog of Fate as an undergraduate student at Haigazian University in Beirut almost a decade ago. […]
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