On eggs, chess, cyber granny and more
It’s already been a week, that I made my latest contribution to Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s (aka Wereldomroep) program Wereldnet. Time passed so quickly and I only now realized I hadn’t posted the link to the podcast yet. So here it is. This time I talked about the Genocide Memorial Day on April 24, about cyber [...]
Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian
Today is April 24, Genocide Memorial Day for Armenians worldwide. Here in Armenia it is a day off on which hundreds of thousands of people visit the Genocide Memorial here in Yerevan to lay flowers near the eternal flame. On April 24 the systematical slaughter of up to one and a half million Armenians during [...]
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
“What will that innocent lamb tell her friends when she grows up? My father is Barsam Tchakhmakhchian, my great-uncle is Dikran Stamboulian, his father is Varvant Istanboulian, my name is Armanoush Tchakhmakhchian, all my family tree has been Something Somethingian, and I am the grandchild of genocide survivors who lost all their relatives at the [...]
Wishlist – Part 1: From the Blogs
I decided to clean out my Google Reader, when I realized how many book reviews I had marked over the past months. They were so many that I decided to divide them into two posts, one with recommendations I found through the blogs and one with books I found through book reviews from newspapers. In [...]
