Sentences with phrase «armenian genocide»

The gift announcement is being made on the same day that UCLA Law is hosting a conference on contemporary challenges to human rights, and just four days before the film opens on screens across the U.S. «The Promise» is set during the Armenian genocide, which began in 1915, when more than 1.5 million people perished in an atrocity driven by ethnic and religious intolerance.

Out of the darkness of the Armenian genocide and our film, we will bring light into the world to help people who need it today.»

«The Armenian genocide must never be forgotten, and this need was one reason why we made «The Promise,»» Esrailian said.

«The Promise,» which is set during the Armenian genocide that began in 1915, opens in theaters on April 21st.

Aram KUYUMJIAN, The Armenian Genocide: International Legal and Political Avenues for Turkey's Responsibility

Mary's passion for immigration stems from her roots as her great - grandparents endured and escaped the Armenian genocide in 1915 - this led her parents and grandparents to immigrate to Canada in the 70's.

So this «triumphalism» about the evils of communism tends to whitewash evils of the non-communist world, and I deliberately haven't included Nazi Germany, slavery in the U.S., the decimation of the First Nations in North America, the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking, and other examples from history.

Setting aside Congress's undoubted ability to speak to matters of substantive foreign policy and war, what if any norms or considerations ought to guide Congress when considering whether to issue symbolic resolutions on controversial matters like Japanese «comfort women» or Armenian genocide?

A variety of unexpected problems [have] made it impractical to stage the contest, including the Egyptian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi Revolution, the Dhofar Rebellion, the Adwan Rebellion, the Ararat Rebellion, the Dersim Rebellion, World Wars I and II, the Arab - Israeli Wars, the Iran - Iraq War, the Anglo - Iraqi War, the Franco - Syrian War, the Saudi - Yemeni War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, the Yemeni Civil Wars, the Suez Crisis, the Siege of Mecca, several intifadas, Operation Ajax, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the assassination of King Abdullah I of Jordan, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the assassinations of numerous Iraqi and Iranian prime ministers, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, several genocides targeting the Kurds and Yazidis, the Semele Massacre, the Hama Massacre, the Mecca Massacre, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, a combined total of over 14 coups d'etat, and inclement weather, among other causes.

In fact, some of the Nazis involved in the Holocaust witnessed the Armenian genocide and used it as a model for their own «cleansing.»

That was also the modus operandi of the Armenian genocide — right down to the box cars shipping the victims to their slaughter.

Every year the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music present a concert of Armenian classical music that commemorates the anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

The work of Armenian - born painter Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48), who landed in the U.S. in the wake of the Armenian genocide of 1915, is generally shown with the Surrealists and the Abstract Expressionists, figures for whom the canvas represented a space in which to pour out their subconscious.

The Armenian Genocide has been a focal point of international conversation during the past few weeks with its 100th anniversary occurring on April 24.

The wording for this poem was taken from a work by the Armenian poet Siamanto (Atom Yarjanian), who was killed during the Armenian Genocide.

Boghiguian was also included in the Golden Lion - winning Armenian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, which memorialized the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

16.45 — 18.00 SESSION 3 Ozlem Koksal: Representations of Armenian Genocide in Contemporary Video and Photography Julian Ross: Punctuating Motion — Slide Projection in the Emergence of Video in 1960 - 70s Japan Respondent: May Adadol Ingawanij

His works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide.

«Kiss the Ground — A New Armenia (Part 3),» the culmination of a series of exhibitions marking the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, delineates the aftermath of trauma.

The award for best national pavilion went to Armenia, whose exhibition, «Armenity,» featured a group of artists from the Armenian diaspora who, as organizers of the show wrote, are «grandchildren of survivors of the Armenian Genocide — the first genocide of the 20th century» and builders of «a «transnational assembly» from the remnants of a shattered identity.»

Barsamian will exhibit Ashfall as a part of a series of events at SCSU marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Both Pinajian and Karabekian, aka Bluebeard, were Armenian - Americans, raised by parents who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide of approximately one and a half million men, women and children, and made their way to the United States, where they raised families during the Great Depression.

Then I discovered that this great abstract artist was Armenian, like myself, and that his family, like mine, had suffered in the Armenian genocide.

The opening of The Flesh Is Yours, The Bones Are Ours coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Born in the eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire, Vosdanig Manoug Adoian (his real name) emigrated to the US in 1920, two years before the Ottoman monarchy was abolished, and five years after the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

As a child he'd experienced the Armenian genocide and witnessed his mother starve to death in a refugee camp before emigrating to the U.S..

TUE APR 17 7PM HAMMER SCREENINGS SCREAMERS The documentary Screamers chronicles Grammy Award - winning rock band System of a Down's efforts to persuade both the British and U.S. governments to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Arshile Gorky echoed memories of the Armenian genocide in his childhood.

The programme, which opens on 5 September, will commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide.

The exhibitions examine and celebrate contemporary Armenian art at a particular moment in history, organized to coincide with the centennial memorialization of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

In 1915, Gorky fled Lake Van during the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian - controlled territory.

Entitled Armenity — a term inspired by the diaspora of Armenian artists and intellectuals around the world — the pavilion embraces the work of eighteen contemporary artists, all of which are descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors.

From Gorky's turbulent childhood fleeing the Armenian genocide in Turkey, to his adulthood in the United States, to his suicide in his forties after a traumatic series of physical and emotional setbacks, this biography offers an intimate window into the artist's life, telling his story through many voices: his letters, sent and received; the correspondence of family and friends; pivotal reviews and criticism; newspaper articles and other essential documents.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, it noted, and their official commendation said that the pavilion «marks the resilience of transcultural confluence and exchanges.»

Billed as the country's largest charitable pet fashion show, now in its 14th year, the event's theme was Global Couture for Animal Rescue with fashions that spanned from Russia to Paraguay strutting down the runway (and a poignant moment when three generations of Armenian women appeared in handmade outfits commemorating the Armenian genocide of 1915).

The author does a masterful job of educating readers about the Armenian genocide while creating a near - perfect work of historical fiction.

Interwoven with Laura's first - person narrative is the text of the book she's writing: an account of her grandparents» meeting and subsequent romance in Aleppo, Syria, set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

The Armenian genocide plays a huge role throughout the novel but doesn't overwhelm the narrative.

Much of the plot takes place against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empire's systematic elimination of the Armenian Christian population, known by later generations as the Armenian Genocide (see backstory).

It has a provocative premise: a 92 - year - old man discovers he has a brain tumor that seems to be unlocking memories of his past as an Ottoman Army soldier during the Armenian genocide.

Moreover, just about this time, Carol Edgarian published her poignant drama of the Armenian Genocide and the diaspora, Rise the Euphrates.

The novel has been gestating at the very least since 1992, when I first tried to make sense of the Armenian Genocide: a slaughter that most of the world knows next to nothing about.

Often as I toured on behalf of the book in 2008 and 2009, readers would ask me the following: When was I going to write about the Armenian Genocide?

But I knew that I wanted to try once again to write about the Armenian Genocide.

Interwoven with Laura's first - person narrative is the text of the book she's writing: a fictionalized account of her grandparents» meeting in Aleppo, Syria set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

It's both well - written and compelling, and highly recommended to anyone who wishes to know more about the Armenian genocide or who has an interest in stories about survival in the face of near - certain death.

Elizabeth Endicott, a wealthy young American, arrives in Syria in 1915 to help refugees of the Armenian genocide.

The year is 1915 and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston - based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide during World War I, when approximately 1.5 million Armenians were killed from 1915 to 1923.

This was a victory for truth, but the struggle for the truth in the face of denial has been a reality on many fronts throughout history from the Herodotus» justifications of Greek atrocities to the Turkish official denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915 to the American government's denial of torturing civilian detainees in the Middle East.