Microhistories In Armenian Studies, edited by Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Umit Kurt, and Ara Sarafian (softcover)

These papers are the outcome of a conference held in 2023 at California State University, Fresno. Victoria Abrahamyan՛s paper is focused on an attack on a large Armenian refugee camp in Damascus during the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925. She elevates Armenians as complex and varied actors in their own right during this turbulent period. Samuel Dolbee draws on a previously unknown autobiographical account of Ohannes Toros Doumanian, an Armenian agronomist and technocrat, to follow his life from the late Ottoman Empire, through the Armenian Genocide, and then Syria and Lebanon. Ümit Kurt probes the agency of Muslim local elites in pursuing their class interests during the Genocide in Aintab. Robert Sukiasyan looks at the extermination of Armenian community leaders during the so-called deportation process in Sivas. Ara Sarafian examines a single incident where Armenians clashed with Ottoman gendarmes during the Armenian Genocide in the village of Morenig, in the Kharpert plain, probing the significance of this clash as a historical and historiographical issue.