Role: Author

Ali Cat. is an artist and print maker living on unceded Cowlitz, Multnomah and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde land at the confluence of two rivers, also know as Portland, Oregon. She produces her work under the name Entangled Roots Press. Her prints mingle the literal and metaphorical to illuminate and comment upon the world around us. Relief, screen, and letterpress prints span from the carnage of clear-cuts to the beauty of peoples movements. Ali’s prints pull from ancestral herstories and push towards liberatory futures; entangling lessons from gardens, symbols in coffee cups, woven threads from Armenia and Euskal Herria, to the printed page. Ali received her BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. She completed an artist-residency at Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires in 2014, and was a member of Flight 64, a member-run, nonprofit print studio, from 2015- 2018. Ali worked as the Print Studio Technician at PNCA from 2017 – 2021. They now teach and volunteer at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

Mrs. Alice Bezjian was born in Egypt of Armenian parents. The family moved to Asia Minor for a short time and later to Syria, finally settling down in Beirut, Lebanon.\

ALICE KETABGIAN was born and raised in Istanbul , Turkey and is a descendent of Genocide Survivors. She received her childhood education from Aramyan Ounchiyan elementary school in Kadikoy, followed by a high school education at Uskiidar Amerikan Kiz Lisesi in Uskiidar. Upon arrival in Southern California in 1962, she attended La VerneCollege for two years and transferred to UCLA to receive an M.S. in Human Physiology from the School of Medicine in 1968. With a newly-revived interest in Armenian history and literature, she translated Anneannem of Fethiye Cetin to English in 2006 (unpublished). An account of her Pilgrimage to Historic Armenia was published in the Armenian Observer the same year. 

As a young photojournalist Alexandra Avakian was fascinated with revolution and the fight for freedom—even dreaming, many times, that she worked in a strife-torn city. She has braved bullets and hostility to photograph stories of searing conflict and bring them to the world. Going far beyond the brief news reports that most of us see, Avakian shares a richer, wider view of the Muslim world through her extraordinary storytelling and photographs—all beautifully showcased in Windows of the Soul.