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Book Reviews

(from most recent to the oldest; not a complete list)

  1. “A families Journey through the Tortuous Roads of Grim Survival,” a review of Bloodied, but Unbowed – A Memoir of the Ashur and Arshaluys Yousouf Family, by Alice Nazarian translated by Ishkhan Jinbashian, in Asbarez, April 24, 2019. 
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  2. Letters to Barbra (2018), by Paul Chaterjian, review published in Asbarez, January 18, 2019, Armenian Weekly, January 22, 2019, available at https://armenianweekly.com/author/rubina-peroomian/.
  3. “My Grandmother by Fethiye Çetin,” https://glli-us.org/2017/08/21/my-grandmother-by-fethiye-cetin/ Posted on August 21, 2017 by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative.
  4. Mourning Philology: Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire by Marc Nichanian , trans. G.M. Goshgarian and Jeff Fort, in Modern Philology Volume 114 (2016).
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  5. “Terzian’s ‘Politically Stateless – a Five-Year Odyssey across Three Continents,’ – An Enthralling Narrative.” In Armenian Observer, February 3, 2016 and published on Amazon.com.
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  6. “Deli Sarkis: The Scars he Carried, A Daughter Confronts the Armenian Genocide and Tells Her Father’s Story by Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut” Posted on www.scarshecarried.com published in Armenian Weekly August 20, 2014  and Asbarez, Oct. 17, 2014.
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  7. “A Must Read” Mary Terzian’s The Immigrant’s Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Realization, on Amazon.com. November 28, 2012.
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  8. Armenian Organizations and Ideology under Ottoman Rule, 1908-1914 by Dikran Mesrob Kaligian in Վէմ  Համահայկական Հանդես, 2010 Ապրիլ-Հունիս, pp. 133-143.
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  9. “History’s Twists: The Armenians by Helene Pilibosian” in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Volume 18 (2009) pp. 145-148.
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  10. “’Starving Armenians’: America and the Armenian Genocide by Merrill D. Peterson,” in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Volume 17 (2008), pp. 232-234.
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  11. “Quest for Closure: The Armenian Genocide and the Search for Justice in Canada by Lorne Shirinian,” in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Volume 14(2005), pp. 224-227.
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  12. “On the Other Side of Mount Ararat: A story of a Vanished City by Mariam Manoukian and Elize Manoukian,” in Ararat Quarterly (2005).
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  13. “Enemy of the People: Armenians Look Back at the Stalin Terror,” a 58min. documentary film  by Zareh Tjeknavorian in American Historical Review (2005) p. 590.
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  14. «Հայրենադարձ իրանահայ դեմքեր» (Repatriated Iranian-Armenian Figures), by Babken Chukaszian, in Asbarez, September 28, 2002.
  15. Modern Armenian Drama – An Anthology by Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe in Ararat/Spring 2001 (2001), pp. 65-67.
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  16. Not Even My Name: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home in America, A Young Girl’s True Story of Genocide and Survival, by Thea Halo, in Journal of Genocide Research (2001), 3 (3), 497-501.
  17. An Armenian Doctor in Turkey, Garabed Hatcherian: My Smyrna Ordeal of 1922 translated from Armenian by Dora Sakayan, in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, vol. 10 (1998, 1999 (2000), pp. 169-72.    
  18. Efronia: An Armenian Love Story by Stina Katchatdourian, in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies,, 1996 (published May 1997), pp. 205-208.
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  19. Caravans to Oblivion: The Armenian Genocide 1915 by G.S. Graber, in Asbarez, February 22, 1997.
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