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Hearing the Footsteps of Dawn: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide

Since 2010, Armenian Scholar Khatchig Mouradian has crisscrossed Turkey more than a dozen times. From Istanbul to Ankara to Diyarbakir, he has participated in genocide commemoration events, delivered lectures on the Armenian genocide, and visited historic Armenian cities and villages to conduct research and interviews with children and grandchildren of witnesses and victims of the Armenian genocide. In this illustrated lecture, he will talk about attempts by "hidden Armenians" to rediscover their heritage, and the struggles of a handful of Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish activists against denial and destruction. Combining images of ongoing vandalism of Armenian churches and monasteries with footage of interviews with Islamized Armenians and locals who narrate the horrors of the Armenian genocide, Mouradian will paint a picture of relentless struggle against destruction, and hope for truth and justice, as the centennial of the Armenian Genocide approaches. 

Presented by The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community College.

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