Nancy Kricorian
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Writer. Author of novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience.
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.
BREAKING: Dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning, moving metal gates to barricade the doors, blocking entrances with wooden tables and chairs, and zip-tying doors shut.
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Columbia campus tonight. These students are not backing down. ❤️❤️❤️
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These beautiful Armenian students spoke about the Armenian Genocide, Artsakh, Jerusalem, and Armenian-Palestinian solidarities tonight at Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us." ~ Armenian proverb
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“Technology doesn’t make us more free; it makes capitalism more efficient.”
~ Boots Riley
#socialism2018
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Our daughter just sent us this video from Grand Central. So much love for
@jvplive
@JvpAction
@jvpliveNY
#ceasefirenow
#freepalestine
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Almost 600K views for
@IndignationFilm
trailer. Congrats
@LoganLerman
@sarahgadon
@JamesSchamus
#film
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I was on the campus yesterday and witnessed this disgraceful exercise in security theater coming on the heels of the president's groveling display in Congress. This editorial is so good. These students give me hope.
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When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, 'The handle is one of us.'
~ Armenian proverb
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@brownisthecolor
This iconic photo is by my friend Aline Manoukian. You can read about her and her work here.
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When the ax came to the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us."
~ Armenian proverb
Երբ որ կացինը եկաւ անտառ, ծառերը ըսին. «կոթը մեզմէ է»:
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You can read about the 1985 Columbia anti-apartheid blockade of Hamilton Hall here
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Law is written for the rich, punishment for the poor.
~ Armenian proverb
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@kenklippenstein
I honestly don't think my central nervous system is going to survive four year of this shit
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False friends are much worse than enemies.
~ Armenian proverb
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Dear
@Israel
Is this you?
Dear Armenia,
Happy Independence Day!
Sincerely yours,
Israel
🇮🇱❤️🇦🇲
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Sarah Silverman got slammed for supporting a
#Palestinian
teen, and she didn't back down.
#FreeAhedTamimi
#Palestine
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"Coercing a woman out of her burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It’s not about the burka. It’s about the coercion."
~ Arundhati Roy
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Why are
@Imaginedragons
playing shows in Tel Aviv and Baku while the human rights of Palestinians and Armenians are being trampled upon?
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Remembering Armenian editor and writer Hrant Dink who was assassinated on 19 January 2007.
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Bilingual compilation of Armenian proverbs gathered in the Detroit area
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My Armenian genocide survivor grandmother is the little girl on the right. Her memory inspires my writing and my organizing. I think of her when I look at photos of the children of Artsakh and of Gaza.
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@48thAve
@alexbkane
Yes! During the divestment protests, I was a grad student and we took over Hamilton Hall and renamed it Mandela Hall. They called in the NYPD and disciplined the student leaders.
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To all my Armenian friends feeling despair about the war and horror at the photo of Aliyev with the helmets of our fallen boys: Let their contempt make us celebrate our survival and our resilience; Let their hatred galvanize us to action.
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What petro-dictatorship is spending vast sums on a propaganda campaign to smear
#Armenia
and
#Armenians
?
@Jeopardy
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#flashbackfriday
With my
#Armenian
grandmother. Her birthdate was lost with her family in the genocide. Her chosen birthday was April 1. Ապրիլ 🌷
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By the time the truth arrives, lies will have devoured the world.
~ Armenian proverb
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This vocabulary list for the
#Armenian
family is mind-boggling. There’s a special word for the husband of the wife’s sister.
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When bread is expensive death is cheap.
~ Armenian proverb
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@socialistdogmom
@jvplive
I was a student at Columbia in 1985, sleeping on the steps of Mandela Hall, calling for divestment to end South African apartheid. I was there today watching the arrests of students taking a stand against genocide and apartheid. Today was actually worse.
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BREAKING: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted
@innocence
client
#RodneyReed
an indefinite stay of execution, meaning he no longer has an execution date! Thanks to all who called, tweeted and spoke out against the execution of an innocent person:
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My Armenian grandmother and literary muse. Photo by Eddie Baba. Watertown, MA.
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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
An Armenian against genocide and for a free Palestine
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You must knock on seven doors before one opens.
~ Armenian proverb
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Happy birthday, Medz Mairig. My Armenian genocide survivor grandmother didn't know her birthday, so she chose April 1st as the day to celebrate
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I'm not Palestinian. I'm Armenian-American. My grandmother was an Armenian Genocide survivor. She was among 8,000 orphans at Ras al Ain in the Syrian desert. And so I stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
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#MessageToAhed
May you remain strong in the face of the cruelty of the occupation. May you soon be released from prison and may you live to see a free Palestine.
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My Armenian grandmother rocking the hula hoop in our back yard in Watertown, MA. Photo by Eddie Baba.
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This book just arrived! With a bilingual compilation of Armenian proverbs. ♥️♥️♥️
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Send a letter of support to 16-year-old Palestinian political prisoner Ahed Tamimi.
Address:
Ahed Tamimi
HaSharon Prison
Ben Yehuda
P.O. Box 7
40 330 ISRAEL
More info on Ahed's case here:
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i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
~ Warsan Shire, "What They Did Yesterday Afternoon"
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Hey
@Airbnb
I just deactivated my account because you are continuing to rent properties built on stolen Palestinian land. That's unethical and illegal.
#deactivateAirbnb
@jvplive
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Renowned Armenian historian Nina Garsoïan passed away at her home in NYC today (August 14, 2022) at the age of 99. She was a brilliant and erudite scholar, as well as a lovely person. I took classes with her at Columbia in the late 80’s.
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Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment still going strong this evening. The Liberation Shabbat was beautiful. I love these students. ❤️🍓🍉
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Today an Israeli military judge denied bail to Ahed Tamimi. On 31 Jan. she will spend her 17th birthday in jail. Send her a birthday card.
Ahed Tamimi/ HaSharon Prison/ Even Yehuda/ P.O. Box 7/ 40 330 ISRAEL
#FreeAhedTamimi
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I am proud to be among this group of 250+ writers who stand with
@kamilashamsie
#RightToBoycott
#BDS
#Palestine
#NellySachs
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TURKEY: Courageous students pen open letter to Erdogan.
"Do not mistake us for those who obey you unconditionally. You are not a sultan, and we are not your subjects."
#Y
üreğimizYetiyor
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My Armenian grandfather was born in Adana. He survived the 1909 Adana Massacres and arrived in Watertown, MA in 1911.
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@prem_thakker
In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renamed it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for more than two weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.
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Facade of an Armenian house in Nor Hadjin, Beirut. This is where my new novel is set.
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By the time the truth arrives, lies will have eaten up the world.
~ Armenian proverb
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My paternal grandparents Levon (Leo) Kricorian and Mariam (Mary) Kodjababian Kricorian. He survived the 1909 Adana Massacre and emigrated to America in 1911. Her family was from Mersin and Hadjin. She survived the
#ArmenianGenocide
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Laws are written for the rich, punishment for the poor.
~ Armenian proverb
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The empty barrel makes a lot of noise.
~ Armenian proverb
Պարապ տակառը շատ ձայն կը հանէ։
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When the dead are not your own they appear to be sleeping.
~ Armenian proverb
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Say it’s good so it will be good.
~ Armenian proverb
Լաւ ըսենք որ լաւ ըլլանք։
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.
@RVilkomerson
of
@jvplive
: "What McCain and so many other right-wing pundits are doing is weaponizing anti-semitism: hijacking a deadly attack against Jews to promote their anti-Muslim and racist agenda."
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Between talking and doing there are mountains and valleys.
~ Armenian proverb
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Key U.S. air base in Turkey sits on property stolen from
#Armenians
during the genocide
#ArmenianGenocide
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SIGN AND SHARE: Stop the War on Children
http://t.co/xBimjqDdcc
via
@avaaz
#Gaza
#BDS
#Palestine
http://t.co/UeEO4i66Ge
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Your most dangerous enemy is the one inside you.
~ Armenian proverb
Ամենէն վտանգաւոր թշնամիդ քու մէջդ է։
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Armenians stand with Muslim communities and denounce New Zealand attacker's misappropriation of Armenian language and history, Please sign and share petition.
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In the 1940s, Armenian photographer Kegham Djeghalian opened the first photo studio in
#Gaza
City. His images show life in the city before it was transformed by war.
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Bourj Hammoud, 1976
My current fiction project is about an
#Armenian
family in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War.
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Ahed Tamimi has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance to occupation, land theft, and dispossession
#FreeAhed
#FreePalestine
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Literature is not an ornament, a pleasant pastime, a pretty flower. Literature is a weapon with which to struggle against injustice.
~ Zabel Yesayan
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Whatever you learn is a golden bracelet on your hand.
~ Armenian proverb
Ինչ որ սորվիս, ձեռքիդ վրայ ոսկի ապարանջան է։
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On this day in 2014, when I was on an Armenian Heritage Trip, I had my photo taken at the city limit of Mersin, where my grandmother was born. Armen Aroyan, our tour leader, asked me to hold a copy of my first novel ZABELLE.
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Another Armenian restaurant In Glendale: Phoenicia ❤️❤️❤️
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I was browsing through the digital files of my dad's old slides, and found this one of my Armenian grandmother rocking the hula hoop in our backyard in Watertown. Photo by Eddie Baba.
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Law is written for the rich, punishment for the poor.
~ Armenian proverb
Օրէնքն հարստի համար է գրած, պատիժն՛ աղքատի։
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@parisreview
I love this interview and have read it several times. This is my favorite line: “You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.”
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My grandmother and some Armenian aunties outside our church in Watertown, MA. Photo by Eddie Baba.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
~Toni Morrison
#WhyIWrite
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Guidelines for White Allies (from 12/11/14 public meeting in Boston)
#BlackLivesMatter
h/t
@onekade
http://t.co/wtdl46PcUC
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My Uncle Leo Kricorian (1940-2000) was one of the 500,000 people who have died of
#COVID19
to date. He was a gifted musician, and the Armenian guitarist in Andy Healey's Boston-based Irish band for over 30 years.
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@willsommer
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, 'The handle is one of us.'
~ Armenian proverb
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To give advice there are many, to give bread very few.
~ Armenian proverb
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One Armenian eats one chicken, two Armenians eat two chickens, three Armenians eat each other.
~ Armenian proverb
Մէկ հայը մէկ հաւ կ՛ուտէ, երկու հայերը երկու հաւ կ՛ուտեն, երեք հայերը զիրար կ՛ուտեն։
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#ArmenianGenocide
commemoration at Istanbul train station from whence Armenian leaders were deported
http://t.co/6SmTeK86qF
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Almost three months after Najarian’s disappearance, the family feels they have done everything they can - and given rights groups’ reports on detention conditions, they fear the worst.
#FreeMaral
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Fixed the headline for you: Azerbaijani troops cross the Armenian border violating Armenia's territorial integrity
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There will come a time when it will be considered shameful to die rich.
~ Armenian proverb
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"For us, justice is putting an end to this impunity and holding the perpetrators accountable for the killing of my one and only Aunt Shireen," says
@LinaAbuAkleh
#Palestine
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If you know ten things, say one and keep nine to yourself.
~ Armenian proverb
Եթէ տասը բան գիտես, մէկը ըսէ, իննը պահէ։
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