Mark Movsesian

At a lawyers conference I attended recently, the conversation turned to “The Innocence of Muslims,” the  offensive YouTube video  that has sparked riots throughout the Muslim world. “Why do they react this way?” a partner at a major law firm asked, referring to Muslim . . . . Continue Reading »

Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915“1918 by Grigoris Balakian translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag Knopf, 509 pages, $35 On April 24, 1915, police arrested 250 leaders of the Armenian community in Istanbul and deported them to the Turkish interior. Among them was . . . . Continue Reading »

Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan Knopf, 527 pages, $30 “These Yankees are most disagreeable Fellows to have to do with about any American question,” an exasperated Lord Palmerston complained in the middle of the nineteenth century. “They are on the Spot, strong, deeply interested in . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this month, as it has for many centuries, the Armenian Church commemorated the Feast of St. Vartan and His Companions. Although the feast is virtually unknown to other Christians, it serves as a reminder of the long and often bloody history of their co-religionists in the Middle East.If . . . . Continue Reading »

Snow by Orhan Pamuk Knopf. 426 pp. $26. Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk published an essay in the New York Review of Books (titled “The Anger of the Damned”) in which Pamuk, who is often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize, tried . . . . Continue Reading »