Tue Mar 12 2019
Armenian Women's Writing in the Ottoman Empire, Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries
By Hasmik Khalapyan
“A male writer is free to be average, but never a female writer.” This is what 19th century writer Srbouhi Dussap told Zabel Yesayan when she announced she wanted to be a writer. Hasmik Khalapyan traces the extraordinary lives of Armenian women writers of the Ottoman Empire.
Mon Mar 11 2019
Zabel Yesayan: The Hope for Justice Hidden in a Matchbox
By Seda Grigoryan
Hidden away in dusty archives, Seda Grigoryan discovered documents from a 1939 Soviet trial that found 20th century writer, literary critic and public figure Zabel Yesayan guilty of crimes she had not committed.
Sun Mar 10 2019
Shooting to Heal
By Vigen Galstyan
Vigen Galstyan takes the reader on a journey spanning a century of Armenian women photographers who carved out their own individual spaces and honed a personal vision that spoke to urgent, collective questions, often speaking the unspeakable and approaching the unapproachable.
