"What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe den…
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Baba ve piç
by Sökmen, Müge Gürsoy, Sökmen, Semih, Bora, Emine, Shafak, Elif
fromMetis Yayınları
The unrealized everyday: by way of an introduction -- Unnoticed lives / Unanswered questions -- Traces of a vanished everyday -- History's interruption: dispossession and genocide -- House of strangers / Diminished Lives -- Epilogue: returning to Ani.
In the 1910s historian Harry Harootunian's parents Ohannes and Vehanush escaped the mass slaughter of the Armenian genocide, making their way to France, where they first met, before settling in suburban Detroit. Although his parents rarely spoke of their families and the horrors…
In this meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival, renowned historian Harry Harootunian explores the Armenian genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora by sketching the everyday lives of his parents, who escaped the genocide in…