Apr 24, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
By Bedross Der Matossian In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims. The central Ottoman government failed to prosecute the main...
Sep 27, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Maria Armoudian Absent-mindedly paying tribute to murderous Turkish dictator Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is a stain on this country’s integrity. It’s time we did something about it, writes Maria Armoudian. Last week, in what once seemed to many an...
May 3, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Last week, to commemorate the start of the Ottoman genocide against Armenians, US President Joe Biden officially acknowledged the genocide. He was the first US President to do so. Why do nations deny committing genocides? What form does denial take? What are the...
Apr 26, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
After a genocide event, there are voices of remembrance by generations of past survivors. The victims live with the trauma of the experience, which is passed on to the following generations of survivors. How does this affect individuals, groups, and nation-states?...
Jan 11, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By James Robins “In salvaging these stories of bloodshed and terror, heroism and humanity, we must pick apart the grand mythology which has smothered and replaced them.” A blue dawn broke over the hush, new light disputing the cool wash of lamp glow....
Aug 13, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide its documentary evidence surrounding it. Denialists claimed that there was no central decision taken by Ottoman...
Apr 23, 2018 | Politics & Society
What are the root causes of genocide? What do historical genocides have in common? How does small-scale violence against targeted groups become genocidal? And what we can learn from the three forgotten genocides? Maria Armoudian chairs a live panel on genocide...