A quiet pedagogy of self-protection
Aylin Vartanyan
Canadian physician and writer Gabor Maté suggests that chronic adaptation, the suppression of anger, and the tendency to prioritize the needs of others, particularly among women, can place a long-term burden on the body. He speaks not of a direct cause-and-effect relationship, but of a meaningful convergence worth attending to. When a person cannot say “no,” the body may begin to express what could not otherwise be spokenղ
The Silent Language of Armenian Needlelace
Aylin Vartanyan
Such tiny objects. Yet entire worlds survive inside them. Satinig’s hands touched these threads before her death. Decades later, Valoma touches the same fabric. Textile becomes encounter. Material becomes witness.
57.1%
Araz Kojayan
When I visited warsinlebanon.com to calculate how much of my life had been consumed by war, the number stunned me: 57.1 percent. More than half of my existence has been spent navigating an ocean of violence. But numbers alone cannot convey the true weight of that reality. They cannot explain how my grandparents and parents survived the 1915 and the 1975, or how any of us continue to wake each morning in a country where survival has become an art form.
Colonial Order: The Time of Patriarchy and Whiteness
Talin Suciyan
What is the connection between Frantz Fanon and Zaven Biberyan?
A War Diary from Lebanon
Araz Kojayan
During a war, bodies and souls are transformed, willingly or not, and the passage of time seeps into them more quickly than is natural. Uncertainty, fear, and loss transform the individual from within, and the survival instinct comes to dominate all values. This latter has a sharper manifestation on the individual's daily life in countries composed of diverse and multi-layered communities, such as Lebanon.