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Zabel Yessayan: The Writer Who Witnessed the Genocide
In the shadow of the Armenian Genocide, one woman risked everything to document the truth. Zabel Yessayan was a novelist, journalist, and activist who traveled to the Ottoman interior in 1915 to bear witness to the deportations and massacres. Her book 'In the Ruins' remains one of the most harrowing firsthand accounts of the genocide. But Yessayan's story doesn't end there: she fled to Paris, was blacklisted, and eventually died in obscurity in Soviet Armenia. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Yessayan's life, her friendship with other Armenian intellectuals…
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