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Khatchig Mouradian’s book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press) will be published on January 1, 2021 and is now available to pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org.
The Resistance Network is the story of a clandestine network of humanitarians, missionaries and diplomats in Ottoman Syria that helped save the lives of thousands of people during the Armenian Genocide. Mouradian challenges descriptions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Assembling hundreds of missionary accounts, official documents and records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. Ultimately, it argues that, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration camps and places of massacre in this region, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered: the unarmed resistance turned out to be a important factor in saving countless lives.
The Resistance Network is the first book in the series Texts and Studies on Armenian History, Society and Culture (TSAHSC), a project of the Armenian Research Center (ARC) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The series was created to expand the academic publication in English of Armenian Studies. In addition to secondary sources based on original research, the series will also publish anthologies of historical documents related to Armenia and / or the Armenians, annotated memoirs, both original and translated, of influential personalities in Armenian life, translations of historical and literary medieval Armenians . texts, as well as works of modern Armenian literature, other topical anthologies, bibliographies, and university textbooks, all related to Armenian studies.
Praise anticipated for The Resistance Network
In this invaluable book, Khatchig Mouradian explores the exterminating universe of Talaat in northern Syria during the Armenian genocide. It reveals the agonizing but effective resistance of the victims and their faith in the Armenian future beyond the perversion of the regime.
—Hans-Lukas Kieser, author of Talaat Pasha: father of modern Turkey, architect of genocide
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Khatchig Mouradian has written a pioneering book on the Armenian genocide. Using a large number of untapped sources in various languages, he shows how a humanitarian resistance network emerged in Ottoman Syria that saved the lives of many Armenians. The Resistance Network is essential reading not only for the new insights it offers on the Armenian genocide, but also for compelling analysis of humanitarianism and resistance in times of great atrocities.
—Eric D. Weitz, author of A divided world: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states
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This exciting study of the Armenian resistance radiating from Aleppo’s “life raft” brings us as close as possible to the Armenian genocide itself, and those who worked to thwart it. We hear their voices, see their torments, and trace their stratagems, such as “human newspapers” written on children’s backs and then covered in dirt, allowing communication between remote communities. Deeply researched, elegantly written, The Resistance Network cannot help but stimulate discussion and is highly recommended for academics, book clubs, and classrooms alike.
—Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California Berkeley
Khatchig Mouradian is Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918. Mouradian has published articles on concentration camps, unarmed resistance, the aftermath of mass violence, midwifery in the Middle East, and approaches to teaching history. He is co-editor of an upcoming book on Late Ottoman history and editor of the peer-reviewed magazine The Armenian Review. Mouradian has taught courses on imperialism, mass violence, urban space and conflict in the Middle East, the aftermath of war and mass violence, and human rights at Worcester State University, Clark University, Stockton University, Rutgers University, and California State University – Ash tree .
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