Tag Archives: Zabel Yessayan

Reading Yessayan, Oshagan, Charents at MIT: an introduction

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Taline Voskeritchian

 ~ PROGRAM The Armenian Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA The Berlin International Festival, Berlin Lepsiushaus, Potsdam present A World Wide Reading Commemorating the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide April 21, 2015 ~ Welcome Armen Samurkashian Introduction Taline Voskeritchian … Continue reading →

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From the Archives: Yessayan, Oshagan, Charents at the World Wide Reading for Armenia, April 21, 2015, MIT.

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Worldwide Reading for Armenia was sponsored by the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Lepsius Haus in Potsdam, and took place in several major cities around the world in April 2015. The Boston reading was held at MIT.  The literary … Continue reading →

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World Wide Reading for Armenia 2015

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~On April 21, in scores of cities and towns throughout the world, there will be memorial readings commemorating the centenary of the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians.  The readings are sponsored by the World Wide Reading for Armenia 2015 (Berlin) … Continue reading →

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Finding Zabel Yessayan–and losing her

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

Zabel Yessayan–the mere utterance of the name echoes with what Marc Nichanian describes, in Western Armenian, as հմայք, whose closest English equivalent would be allure. Nichanian’s chapter on Yessayan in his Writers of Disaster makes for a devastating reading–her tumultuous … Continue reading →

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