Heghar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019, 436 pp.

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  • Sato Moughalian

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0011

Author Biography

Sato Moughalian

Writer and Musician, New York, USA.

References

Simon Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman, “A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture,” Hyperallergic blog, 18 February 2019, at https://hyperallergic.com/482353/a-regime-conceals-its-erasureof-indigenous-armenian-culture/, accessed 18.06.2020.

Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project, High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan (Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010), at https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/s3fs-public/reports/Azerbaijan_Report.pdf, accessed 12.07.2020.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) 1948, in United Nations Treaty Collection 78, 277, at https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume78-i-1021-english.pdf, accessed 12.07.2020.

Raphael Lemkin, “Acts Constituting a General (Transnational) Danger Considered as Offences against the Law of Nations,” Additional Explications to the Special Report presented to the 5th Conference for the Unification of Penal Law in Madrid (14-20 October 1933), at www.preventgenocide.org/ lemkin/madrid1933-english. htm, accessed 10.07.2020.

For two thoughtful analyses of Lemkin on the subject of cultural destruction, see Peter Balakian, “Raphael Lemkin, Cultural Destruction, and the Armenian Genocide,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 27, no. 1 (2013): 57-89; Leora Bilsky and Rachel Klagsbrun, “The Return of Cultural Genocide?” European Journal of International Law 29, no. 2 (2018): 373-396.

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, “When Art and Religion Collide,” Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2010, at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-19-la-oe-watenpaugh-bible-20100719-story.html, accessed 02.10.2019.

Artavazd Surmeyan, Պատմութիւն Հալէպի Հայոց [History of the Armenian Aleppo] (Paris: Éditions Araks, 1950).

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Published

2020-11-25

How to Cite

Moughalian, S. (2020). Heghar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019, 436 pp. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 5(1), 102–106. https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0011