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An Armenian and An Armenian

The author’s grandfather Levon, circa 1965. TMR WeeklyColumn Armenian Eyes Mischa Geracoulis Though it had been on my reading list for years, I’d held off entering into Aram Saroyan’s Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan (William Morrow & Co. 1982) until recently. Facing his account of the last months, Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 2 yearsApril 25, 2021 ago
the man behind the white guitar

Gatekeepers of Truth: A filmmaker, a guitarist, their friendship and her run for governor

by Mischa Geracoulis Apr 21, 2021 Sometimes, artistic testimony gives greater pause for reflection than in-your-face dramatics. Case in point: The Man Behind the White Guitar. The new documentary on the life of Brazilian-born and longtime Fairfax-based musician and composer, José Neto, is deliberate, chill and unfolds at a pace that Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 2 yearsApril 25, 2021 ago

The Revolution Sees its Shadow: 10 Years Later

From Zahra to Yasmin, from the Islamic Revolution to the Green Movement and the Arab awakenings, Spring is inextinguishable Just as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day 2021, and predicted another six weeks of winter, so too for the “Spring” uprisings.  No longer simply symbolic of the prediction Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 2 yearsFebruary 15, 2021 ago

Racialization and the US Census in Trump Era

Despite broad consensus that previously long-held beliefs about race that emerged from social, economic and political agendas rather than anthropological, historical or biological facts, and despite forward strides made in the American civil rights and South African anti-apartheid movements, race is still used as an instrument to divide and subjugate. Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 6 yearsApril 30, 2017 ago

The other F-word on history, memory and experiments in Armenian-Turkish conciliation

IT WAS LATE APRIL in the Capital, a time of blossoming cherries, daffodils, and other imported botanical cheer. The annual White House Easter egg hunt had recently passed — as, incidentally, had the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Washington, DC was in particular good form, enjoying the Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 6 yearsApril 26, 2017 ago

Mary Mazzio Discusses Her Documentary on Child Sex Trafficking, the CDA, and Backpage

Mary Mazzio, attorney-turned-humanitarian documentarian, impassioned founder of 50 Eggs Films, and producer of such films as Underwater Dreams, The Apple Pushers, and Contrarian, spotlights another human rights issue — child sex trafficking — in her latest film, I Am Jane Doe. Versed in asking tough questions, challenging the status quo, Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 6 yearsFebruary 14, 2017 ago

Catholic Worker walks out the Gospels in secular San Francisco

San Francisco’s Temenos Catholic Worker house, the ministry founded by the Rev. River Sims, takes the Worker mission to the city’s front lines. Sims was ordained a priest in the Evangelical Anglican Church in America in 1995 and later consecrated bishop of the denomination’s Society of Franciscan Workers in 2007. Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 7 yearsSeptember 27, 2016 ago

ANALYSIS: ‘Reorientalism’ is finding a new East

The Latin adage Ex oriente lux, ex occidente lex  (“from the East, light, from the West, law”) expresses a yin-yang-like balance, signifying that both Orient and Occident are needed for harmony to exist. Imbalances between these two result in power struggles and losses – from personal to political. Such is Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 8 yearsNovember 11, 2015 ago
Armenians being deported from Turkey during the Armenian genocide, circa 1915. Narek/Flickr. Some rights reserved

Another Asia Minor disaster

Greece is a microcosm of the world, complete with money problems and refugees. The EU should be doing more to aid those rendered most vulnerable by the crisis. Being of Armenian descent, I was born into the history of Asia Minor, an exotic sounding nomenclature used by my grandfather’s generation Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 8 yearsAugust 31, 2015 ago

Healing Diabetes the Native American Way

Though diabetes is exploding worldwide, the tribes of the American Southwest take the lead. The ravages of diabetes in the U.S. Native American population are harder hitting than in any other ethnic group in the country. Nonexistent four and five generations ago, half of their adult population now suffers with Read more…

By Mischa Geracoulis, 10 yearsAugust 1, 2013 ago

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