Here we are at the much-anticipated and much-talked-about 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
A First-Person Testimony About The Heroic Battle of Vasbouragan
Between April 7 and May 4, 1915, the free-spirited and courageous Armenians of Van had no other means but to defend themselves in order to escape massacre and total annihilation.
ASBAREZ EXCLUSIVE: Eric Bogosian on Writing ‘Operation Nemesis’
Eric Bogosian’s new book is not a novel or a script or a volume of monologues – the genres for which he is best known.
Memoirs of an Armenian Genocide Survivor from Hadjin
Petitions were made via the National Union to the French Government. However, these requests to send French forces to Hadjin, remained unanswered. Each day, telegrams from Hadjin were received expressing the close proximity of the danger. The petitions would be repeated to send aid
The Great Retreat from Vasbouragan (June-July 1915)
After two and one half months from the April-May battles, just as the new Armenian government was starting to operate, the Russian command suddenly—and without any explanation—decided to retreat from the areas it was occupying
‘A Wreath of Violet’s’
A Wreath of Violet’s is the story of survival during the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. It is a fictionalized account, based on the true story of Lori Berberian’s family. Following is an excerpt from the unpublished manuscript
A Deconstruction Of Connected Histories In Aline Ohanesian’s ‘Orhan’s Inheritance’
I must admit, picking up a book with a narrative already too familiar is a tall order. The task is made even more difficult when the narrative is one that speaks to my ethnic and communal sense of belonging. The room for disappointment is wide since so much is at stake.
Aline Ohanesian {in her words}
Hidden Stories It was August of 1983 and the heat of the San Fernando Valley kept us indoors. There were six of us on my aunt’s king-size bed, all under the age of nine: my brother and me and four “cousins” who were technically my aunts and uncles because they were the offspring of my…
iwitness
The iwitness public art installation by artists Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian and architect Vahagn Thomasian and sponsored by LA County Major Michael Antonovich will open April 25 at 5 pm, at the Music Center and Grand Park in downtown Los Angele
The Memoir of Armenian Hero Hrant Guzelian
Guzelian rescued hundreds of Armenian youths left in Turkey in the decades following the genocide, including Hrant Dink, who was his protege The Youth Home of Istanbul: A Story of the Remnants’ Homecoming, the inspiring memoir of Armenian hero Hrant Guzelian, was published in Armenian in 2007 and was just released in English. Guzelian was…
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