Monthly Archives: March 2014

First loves: Chekhov’s “Seagull” among us…

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

There’s a scene half-way through Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” where Boris Trigorin, the famous writer, implores Irina Arkadina, a famous actress and Trigorin’s  lover, “Let me go, let me go.” He claims to have fallen in love with the young … Continue reading →

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Do you know the way to Sacromonte?

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~This post originally appeared on this blog; then it migrated to the blog of the radio program “On Being;” and now it is back in its home.  This homecoming today is an occasion for celebration in an otherwise mostly dreary … Continue reading →

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Re-reading Darwish on March 13

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day–March 13–1941.  For all that he has given to us, his readers, for the monumental body of his work and its staying power, and for his enduring images and ideas, these lines.  The first … Continue reading →

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Hagop Oshagan: Teacher for the generations

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~This photograph is of the Western Armenian novelist Hagop Oshagan with his students, in Jerusalem. The year is unknown. It is one of the very few pictures of Oshagan with his students although it is said that  with them, Oshagan … Continue reading →

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