Dispatches
Survivors
In Azad’s Own Words: “Toward Jubeil”
In April 1924, twelve-year-old Azad Kechian published an essay in New Near East about the day he left Nahr Ibrahim. His orphanage on the Lebanese coast had been struck by malaria the previous summer. More than half the boys were...
Aurora Mardiganian & Ravished Armenia
In late 1918, on a film set in California, a seventeen-year-old Armenian girl named Aurora Mardiganian was acting out the worst moments of her own life. The film would help raise more than $30 million in humanitarian relief. It would...
Daughter of Freedom: Zadi’s Story
An emaciated baby found by Near East Relief workers in Marash in 1921, named Azadouhi — Armenian for “daughter of freedom” — and the genocide survivor she became.
In a Little Boy’s Face: Antranig Karjian & the Birds’ Nest
Before Antranig Karjian died in 2014 at age ninety-four, he had given his daughters a photograph from his childhood: a small boy saying grace over a bowl of food. It was the only photograph he had from his time growing...