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Book Review: The sea in Russian strategy (by Yeghia Tashjian)

The sea in Russian strategy Edited by Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly Publisher: Manchester University Press (August 2023) 272 pages, English $21.95 Understanding Russia’s foreign policy or strategy in the post-Ukraine war era may be complex...

July 19, 2023    Posted In  Book Reviews 
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Book Review: The Armenians of Aintab (by Yeghia Tashjian)

The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province By Ümit Kurt Harvard University Press, April 2021 400 pp. $45.00 As an Aintabtsi Armenian, Dr. Ümit Kurt’s book The Armenians of Aintab; The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman...

January 10, 2023    Posted In  Armenian Genocide, Diaspora and Republic  Book Reviews 
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Book Review | Clash of Histories in the South Caucasus

Clash of Histories in the South Caucasus: Redrawing the map of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iran By Rouben Galichian Bennet & Bloom, 2012 232 pp. It is widely acknowledged that history is often manipulated and revised by authoritarian states. History...

December 28, 2021    Posted In  Book Reviews  Caucasus 
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Book Review | Political Relations Between Mongols and Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (By Yeghia Tashjian)

In his book Political Relations between Mongols and Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (1236-1277AD) and its impact on Islamic History (published in Beirut, 2020), Dr. Abdulla bin Jassim Ali Al-Thani writes about the regional order in the Near East during...

October 5, 2021    Posted In  Armenian Genocide, Diaspora and Republic  Book Reviews 
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Book Review | Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination (by Yeghia Tashjian)

Early in his career, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism; this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazi Party was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder...

April 14, 2021    Posted In  Armenian Genocide, Diaspora and Republic  Book Reviews  Turkey: domestic and foreign affairs 
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Book Review: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus (Yeghia Tashjian)

In his book “Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy” (2012), Dr. Ohannes Geukjian analyzes how ethnicity and nationalism became a catalytic cause of the Nagorno-Karabakh...

February 10, 2021    Posted In  Armenian Genocide, Diaspora and Republic  Book Reviews  Caucasus 
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How can Armenians overcome their national crisis? (By Yeghia Tashjian)

War adversely affects combatants and non-combatants alike, both physically and psychologically. Death, disability, illness and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) are common consequences of wars, the horrors of which disrupt not just the life of the people...

December 29, 2020    Posted In  Book Reviews  Popular culture and arts 
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A Brief Overview of Malcolm Brown’s T.E. Lawrence (By Bedros Torossian)

This short book offers an overview of T.E. Lawrence’s dynamic life. It consists of 160 pages and is made up of nine chapters. It is enriched with beautiful illustrations of people, places and animals. As Brown notes, Lawrence was an extraordinary...

May 24, 2017    Posted In  Book Reviews 
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A Brief Overview of Salim Tamari’s Year of the Locust (By Bedros Torossian)

The book is short consisting of 201 pages and made up of two chapters; one of them titled “The Erasure of Ottoman Palestine,” and the second chapter is called“The Diary of Ihsan Turjman,” which forms the bulk of this book. In the Year of the Locust:...

May 8, 2017    Posted In  Book Reviews 
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The legacy of Kamal Jumblatt

“Freedom is, after all, man’s dignity.” -Kamal Jumblatt I just finished reading I Speak for Lebanon – one of the greatest books of all time – written by the teacher, philosopher, leader and politician, Kamal Jumblatt. A renowned political figure...

December 12, 2016    Posted In  Book Reviews 
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