by admin | Apr 24, 2017 | blog
April 24th: Varoujan’s Arrest April 24th 1915, Taniel Varoujan, a magnificent poet, aged 31, was arrested at his home in Constantinople, never to return. Varoujan was one of hundreds Armenian intellectuals arrested that night which was the start of the calamity...
by admin | Apr 1, 2017 | blog
Taniel or Daniel … and visiting Istanbul to find Varoujan’s Constantinople One question people regularly ask me about the film is why did I use the spelling Taniel and not Daniel. Interestingly, this is something I got wrong myself at the beginning but an...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | blog
The Beginning: Garo Berberian I was given a book by a friend – it was by Aram Andonian’s book entitled “Exile, Trauma and Death”, and it was an absolutely fascinating read, describing the story of the Armenian intellectuals who were arrested on April...
