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No Mrs. Obama I Cannot Answer Your Question
In November 2019 Michelle Obama published her book, “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice.” The book (a journal) contains over 150 questions designed to help you the reader capture your own voice by reflecting on your personal and … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Armenian Genocide, books, childhood, genocide, grandparents, history, holocaust, justice, memories, Michelle Obama, news, parents, refugees, truth
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1.5 Million Reasons To Live Laugh And Move Forward
Today is April 24. It’s a day where all Armenians around the world march by the thousands on the streets of their cities both in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Turks and to demand justice. The thing … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Armenia, Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, film, genocide, grandparents, holocaust, Jews, movie, Oscar Isaac, people, The Promise
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1.5 Million Reasons Why
Today is the 24th of April. It’s the day when all Armenians all over the world gather and march in memory of 1.5 million who died in the hands of the Turks one hundred and one years ago. Robert Fisk … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Armenia, Armenian, Canada, death, genocide, George Clooney, grandparents, holocaust, justice, life, memories, people, prayers, relationships
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There Were A Million And A Half
It’s the 24th of April today. The day we Armenians commemorate the 1.5 million who perished on this day in 1915. The atrocities committed against them by the Turks are so terrorizing and vicious and the survivors’ stories so sad … Continue reading
The Mountains Are Still Very Wild
It’s April 22 today. April 24 marks the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Robert Fisk calls it the first Holocaust of the 20th century. He writes: “Encouraged by their victory over the Allies at the Dardanelles, the Turks fell … Continue reading
Since Then We Never Stopped
When I was a little girl growing up in Lebanon, the stories I was told by my elders were not of Cinderella and Prince Charming. Rather they were stories of survival told by my parents and grandparents. I did not … Continue reading
The Lights Are On
Years ago when I was a student in high school I was staying in Beirut at my aunt’s place, when the government was toppled and a military government took over. It had been almost a year since the civil war … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged anger, aunt, Canada, Christmas, civil war, Elie Wiesel, experience, faith, family, fear, genocide, God, government, holocaust, horror, house, human, lights, Middle East, military, news, night, people, politics, protest, race, reason, red, Red Cross, religion, religious, signs, story, suffering, torture, traffic, traffic light, twilight, writing
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Is It Too Much To Ask?
Chance had it that I was born and raised in Lebanon, hence I am a Lebanese citizen and as such carry a Lebanese passport, even though I am Armenian by origin. Both my parents came to Lebanon as refugees from … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Amazon, April, Armenian, children, civil war, Ernest Hemingway, experience, family, father, genocide, grandparents, holocaust, horror, Ivory Coast, Jews, journalist, Lebanon, library, literature, Middle East, Montreal, mother, Nazi, publishers, quotes, reader, reading, refugees, reporter, Robert Fisk, signs, story, suffering, torture, Turkey, women, writer, writing
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