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June 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Angel of Aleppo tells the heartwrenching story of a girl that survives the Armenian Genocide and finds a way to keep love in her life. What was the inspiration for the setup to your story? The story of Angel of Aleppo was inspired by my Armenian wife Lilit’s own grandmother Anoush, who witnessed a Turkish […]

Sydney Launch event

June 4, 2021 · Leave a Comment

On May 22, Lilit and I had the honour of being hosted by the Literary and Cultural Committee of Hamazkaine in Willoughby, on Sydney’s North Shore, for the ‘Angel of Aleppo’ launch. Given we staged the play from which the novel had its genesis in nearby Chatswood six years earlier, this was a welcome return […]

Words on the Wall

May 26, 2021 · Leave a Comment

There is no hard historical evidence that #Kemal ever uttered the affectionate words to the #Anzac mothers that are the foundation of the Special relationship between #Turkey and #Australia. In 1953, one of #Kemal’s fellow war criminals, one Sükrü Kaya, alleged to a state Turkish newspaper that #Kemal passed a version of these words on […]

President Biden Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide

April 25, 2021 · Leave a Comment

At last. #PresidentBiden has turned his back on a century of denial. He charts a new way forward. It is worth noting that Joe Biden has been in government for 36 years. He has borne witness as a government official to the great events of history since the mid-eighties. Now, he is doing something that […]

Launches in Adelaide

April 1, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Most of #Australia ignored a genuine outrage last year, the assault by #Turkish-backed #Azerbaijan on the independent, largely #Armenian-populated Republic of #Artsakh, which began on September 27 and concluded only on November 10 with a Russian-brokered ceasefire, which gave the opportunistic Vladimir Putin his long-coveted Russian boots on Southern Caucasus ground in the form of […]

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