Naming the Armenian Genocide for what it is
ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,...
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26 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
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16 Dec
Armenia, Untold Stories
My Proud Pilgrimage to My Homeland — and Our Line in the Sand
The forward trenches in the hills just beyond the abandoned village of Talish, in Nagorno-Karabakh, are reminiscent of World War I: long, endless,...
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21 Oct
Armenia, Untold Stories
Putting a Face on the Refugee Crisis
For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we...
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26 Apr
Armenia
Why I will not forget the dead
Today I am in Manhattan. This morning I am at St. Vartan, the magnificent Armenian Cathedral on Second Avenue, for the Divine Liturgy....
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The boulder’s big, but our children can move it.
A child brings two heavy buckets of water into the home of a strange old woman and discovers there a wall of cages...
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08 Jun
Armenia, Untold Stories
In a Turkish town that had 10,000 Armenians, now there is only one
A woman I met last month in southeastern Turkey is going to die, probably sometime soon. Asiya’s death will not be covered by...
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The gods must be crazy after all
HERE’S THE setup: A Coca-Cola bottle falls from a low-flying airplane over an undeveloped corner of Africa. How undeveloped? The local tribesman who finds...
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The Armenian Weekly says “The Sandcastle Girls” is “compelling and powerful.”
Writing about The Sandcastle Girls in a recent issue of The Armenian Weekly, reviewer Wendy Plotkin concluded, “”The scope of The Sandcastle Girls is almost...
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Booklist says “The Sandcastle Girls” is “powerful and moving.”
Booklist weighed in this week on “The Sandcastle Girls,” calling the novel “powerful and moving,” and concluding, “It will leave you reeling.” So,...
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Publishers’ Weekly weighs in on “The Sandcastle Girls”
Publishers’ Weekly weighed in on “The Sandcastle Girls” this week and I couldn’t be more grateful — given how important this book is...
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