Vahakn Dadrian: One Scholar’s Pursuit of Historical Justice
Friday, 31 December 1999
By Henry R. Hattenbach In a very real sense, Professor Vahakn Dadrian is a lone warrior in the oft-frustrating struggle to have the Armenian genocide recognized as history. Not that Dadrian is the sole scholar of this genocide that ushered in the 20th century, tirelessly grappling with those denying its historicity. Professor Richard Hovannisian immediately springs to mind. Yet
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Breaking the Wall of Silence: A Turkish voice joins the call for Armenian Genocide recognition. A Dutch journalist documents the effort fueled by the scholarship of an Armenian historian
Wednesday, 31 March 1999
By Salpi Haroutinian Ghazarian Dorothée Forma is a soft-spoken journalist of the European tradition. In the Netherlands, where media channels are clearly labeled as belonging to specific religious, ethnic or political groups, she works with a small broadcasting organization which supports humanist principles: Taking responsibility, having the right to make your own choices without being
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Man of the Year: The Lone Crusader; Peter Balakian; A Poet’s Political Coming of Age
Thursday, 31 December 1998
By Mark Arax It was the spring of 1997 and Peter Balakian, the author of four collections of poetry, was about to launch his first big book. He felt the unease that any author feels knowing that his baby, now in the hands of marketers and reviewers, was no longer his own. That the book,
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