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War, Genocide and Remembrance in the Modern Middle East
Vicken Cheterian
How a century of historical oblivion has shaped the post-Ottoman Middle East.

War, Genocide and Remembrance in the Modern Middle East
Political analyst Vicken Cheterian considers the legacy of World War I and the tremendous political, demographic and social transformation it brought about in the area we now call the Middle East. Dr. Cheterian focuses particularly on the absence of the Armenian Genocide from the historical narrative of the Middle East and the way in which this persistent omission, denial and finally, lack of accountability over the last one hundred years have shaped the ongoing political struggles and violence that continue to destabilize the region today.

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Dr. Richard Hovannisian considers the geopolitical environment and major historical events ... [more]
The Armenian Studies Program at the University of California (UCLA) focuses on the study o ... [more]
Dr. Richard Hovannisian describes the beginnings of the first independent Republic of Arme ... [more]
Fridtjof Nansen is best known for the eponymous passport which allowed hundreds of thousan ... [more]
Historian Vicken Cheterian provides an analysis of the October 2020 war on Artsakh and the ... [more]
Psychologist Israel Charny asserts that denial - as a form of hate speech - is a continuat ... [more]
In 2015, on the eve of the centennial commemorations of the Armenian Genocide, we intervie ... [more]