An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
– Benjamin Franklin
Links to published articles:
Book Review: My Name is Revenge (Armenian Weekly, 2019), a review of a novella and collected essays by Ashley Kalagian Blunt, inspired by the assassination of the Turkish consul-general to Sydney, Australia in 1980.
Sweet is Remembrance of the Righteous (pdf), about the importance of remembering and honouring those who helped others in a violent time.
10 Facts You May Not Know About Stella Loughridge (168 Hours, 2018), an article about an American missionary on the Talas team who saved Armenian and Greek orphans.
Remembering Lillian Cole Sewny on National Nurses Day (Armenian Weekly, 2018), an article about an American nurse who was part of the Talas team, both in the early days, and again 1920-1923.
Seven ‘Good Samaritans’ in Armenia 1915-1917 (168 Hours, 2018), an article about six American and one Canadian missionaries who were among the first to aid Armenian and Assyrian refugees in Russian-Armenia.
Յոթ «Բարի սամարացիները» Հայաստանում 1915-1917թթ. (168.am, 2018).
Remembering Arakel Sivaslian (Armenian Weekly, 2018), an article about a little known American-education astronomer who was a victim of the Armenian Genocide.
History is Written by the Victors (Armenian Weekly, 2017), an essay on why we do not know our complete history, and what questions we need to ask ourselves.
To Speak or Not to Speak (168.am, 2017), an examination of when it is appropriate to speak up and when silence is the better course of action.
Learning From or Repeating History (Armenian Weekly, 2017), an overview of the terrible similarities of current events in the world, and events in 1914-1922 in the Ottoman Empire.
Remembering Susan Wealthy Orvis (2015), co-authored with Kamo Mayilyan, re-posted in the Aurora Prize’s 100Lives from the original posting in Armenian Weekly.
The Audiocast Diaries: Reflections on Radio and Podcasting for Delivery of Educational Soap Operas, published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2006), and reprinted as a chapter in Changing Tunes of Radio (2008).