Role: Author

Meghedi Melody Nazarian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and was very engaged in the Armenian community growing up. After graduating from the University of San Francisco with a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Journalism, she started her career as a fashion writer for popular online women’s blog network, POPSUGAR, and has since worked with major fashion companies like Paige Denim and Stitch Fix. Before heading to Armenia in 2015, she lived in Los Angeles.

Kurdish leader and the former mayor of Diyarbakir, principal Kurdish town in Turkey.

Matthew Spender is a writer and sculptor. He married the eldest daughter of Arshile Gorky in 1968. His previous book, Within Tuscany, is a memoir about the Sienese countryside where they live.

France is the only Western European nation home to substantial numbers of survivors of the World War I and World War II genocides. In the Aftermath of Genocide offers a unique comparison of the country’s Armenian and Jewish survivor communities. By demonstrating how—in spite of significant differences between these two populations—striking similarities emerge in the ways each responded to genocide, Maud S. Mandel illuminates the impact of the nation-state on ethnic and religious minorities in twentieth-century Europe and provides a valuable theoretical framework for considering issues of transnational identity. Investigating each community’s response to its violent past, Mandel reflects on how shifts in ethnic, religious, and national affiliations were influenced by that group’s recent history. The book examines these issues in the context of France’s long commitment to a politics of integration and homogenization—a politics geared toward the establishment of equal rights and legal status for all citizens, but not toward the accommodation of cultural diversity.\