Tag Archives: Armenian Genocide

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Taline Voskeritchian

HR 296 and the Politicization of the Armenian Genocide: Assumptions, Questions, Pitfalls Asbed Kotchikian and I wrote this op-ed on HR296. It is posted on Hetq, November 18. By Asbed Kotchikian and Taline Voskeritchian The passage of Resolution 296 by … Continue reading →

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Anahide Ter Minassian:by way of a tribute

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Taline Voskeritchian

Anahid Ter Minassian (1929-2019): By way of a tribute Some deaths are trascendant; they point to something larger beyond the individual life. The death of Anahide Ter Minassian–in whom the historian, the person of action, and the tender nurturer cohabited … Continue reading →

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The Valise–a family memoir

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

      ~~”The Valise” was published in the fall 2011 issue of American Literary Review.  Since then, the publication has gone digital, and the essay is not available in print or on the ALR website.   You can read it … Continue reading →

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Final notes on “The Promise”

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~In The Promise, the Armenian genocide has at last been made into a big, feature-length movie with huge ambitions: to join the company of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Titanic. Such a Hollywood epic, the argument goes, would raise … Continue reading →

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Promises, promises: preliminary notes on “The Promise.”

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

~PROMISES, PROMISES~ I, too, saw The Promise.  Here are my comments in response to the rhetoric and sloganeering that has surrounded this movie since its release: 1. Our story… Is this “our story”? An ambitious man from the villages goes … Continue reading →

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Re-reading Michael Arlen’s “Passage to Ararat,” 2

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Taline Voskeritchian

…The story was true, I knew–a true and moving story, and one so far beyond my own experience.  But I found I wished his arm away from mine, wished away his frail hand, his tears.  “My father had committed no … Continue reading →

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Oshagan in English…

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

Gomidas Institute has announced the publication of a section from Hagop Oshagan’s novel, Մնացորդաց (Remnants).  The translation is by G.M.Goshgarian who won a PEN Translation Award for his work while it was still in manuscript form. The volume has an … Continue reading →

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Mnatsortats in English–at last

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

Yes, that’s the most immediate and authentic response which a friend posted on FB:  “At last, at last,” he wrote.  Indeed, some eighty years after its writing, Hagop Oshagan’s Mnatsortats has seen the light of day in a magnificent translation … Continue reading →

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The Streets of Istanbul–photos from Taksim and Istiklal

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Taline Voskeritchian

From time to time on this blog, I feature photos from friends and colleagues who happen to be traveling to the four corners of the world.  Less than 24 hours ago, Asbed Kotchikian, a good friend whose photos of the … Continue reading →

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Deported/a Dream Play–at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Boston

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Taline Voskeritchian

Part traditional dance mixed with abstract movement, part exhibition of intricate lacework, part a sweeping melodrama spanning a cursed century for Armenians, part a cry for justice, part public relations and information project, Deported/A Dream Play is an attempt to … Continue reading →

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