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Category Archives: From My Files
An evening of 4 Peleshian films, November 15, in Yerevan
Four films by Ardavazd Peleshian will be screened on November 15, 2017 at Silk Road Hotel, hosted by Folk Arts HUB Foundation. The films are Mountain Patrol, Inhabitants, Seasons of the Year, and two very-shorts from the early 1990s, Life … Continue reading
Posted in Armenians, Cinéphilia, From My Files
Tagged Arthur Peleshian, distance montage, paradjanov, Soviet films, The Seasons of the Year, We
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Ara Oshagan’s work on Social Documentary website
~~Ara Oshagan, my cousin, good friend and partner in profound silliness, is the featured photographer on the Social Documentary website for his work on juvenile prisons in California. I have featured Ara’s work on this blog before, twice. ~~ Here … Continue reading
From the archives: Paradjanov
Paradjanov’s Home of the Imagination ~~James Steffen, friend and colleague, informs us on his FB page that today is Paradjanov’s ninetieth birthday. Steffen is the author of the recently published The Cinema of Sergei Paradjanov. So, this is an opportune … Continue reading
Syria, Syria, nothing but Syria…
~~As the talk of attacking Syria intensifies, I am re-posting Darwish’s poem, “I Rememberal-Sayyab” which Darwish wrote on the eve of the Second Gulf War. This translation appeared in the June 24 issue of the London Review of Books.~~ ~ … Continue reading
From my Files: Songs from the Streets: A Charles Aznavour Story
The article that follows was published (with different visuals) in August 1993, in Armenian International Magazine. Warning: Some of the material here (related to Armenia) is woefully dated. In the last 15 years since its publication, a great deal has … Continue reading
From my files: Vahé Oshagan, Toward Life (Tebi Gyank)
Vahé Oshagan’s poem Դէպի Կեանք (Toward life) was completed in 1983 and published in 1991. To my knowledge, the following is its first English language translation from the Armenian to be published separately anywhere. ~~~ TOWARD LIFE by Vahé Oshagan … Continue reading
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Tagged (translated Tebi Gyank), Anahid Kassabian, Armenian culture, contemporary Armenian poetry, diaspora culture, Hrayr Anmahooni, modern poetry, Ohannes Salibian, sound-text composition, Tebi Gyank, Toward Life, translation, translation from Armenian, Vahé Oshagan
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From my files: Review of “The Swallows of Kabul,” by Yasmina Khadra
The recent success of the film Of Gods and Men, which is set in Algeria in the 1990s when the country was gripped by a civil war between an Islamist insurgency and the government, prompted me to re-read a review-essay … Continue reading
Posted in From My Files, Passages and Homes
Tagged Afghanistan, Algerian army, Algerian civil war 1990s, Algerian Islamist insurgency, Arab novelists, Commissioner Brahim Llob, Daily Star/International Herald Tribune, FIS, In the Name of God, Kabul, Morituri, Taliban, the Swallows of Kabul, Wolf Dreams, Yasmina Khadra
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From my Files: Paradjanov’s Home of the Imagination
~~Over the years, I have penned some half a dozen pieces of writing about Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet-era film-maker, collage artist, and political trouble-maker and renegade. Below is a review I wrote for artsMedia, a Boston news magazine which … Continue reading
From my Files: Central Square Post Office, Cambridge,MA
[This post was originally published in the “Boston Harbors” column of the January 2001 issue of arts/Media magazine, which has since ceased publication. This is a slightly revised version. Some of the information here may be dated, though.] On the … Continue reading
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Tagged Camridge, Central Square Post Office, letter-writing, letters, MA, post office, post offices
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From my files: Mapping Boston @ the Boston Public Library
This review of the exhibit “Mapping Boston” appeared in the April 2000 issue of artsMedia, a Boston-based magazine of the arts, which has since ceased publication. The construction of the BPL Courtyard has been completed for a while now, and … Continue reading
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