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LIGHT OUT, ARMENIA
A Diaspora Love Story
LIGHTS OUT, ARMENIA is an adventure, a family and national history, a meditation on identity. A young man goes off to a war, to a cause, to another chapter in a generations-old tale of displacement, of exile, of diaspora and pride.
Today's world is one of diaspora: 13 million Syrians have been driven from their homes. In the past three months, almost 7 million Ukrainians have been forced to relocate due do the ravages of Putin's war.
That same war has driven tens of thousands of Russians abroad in protest. And if projections are correct, millions of climate refugees will be displaced from their homelands and forced to find shelter elsewhere.
Displacement and diaspora are defining issues of our time.
This book is a love story from the Armenian diaspora, an epic longing for homeland that transcends time and space.
Apo Sahagian grew up in the Old City of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter, and from his perch on the seam between Israeli West Jerusalem and Palestinian East Jerusalem, Apo has a front-row view of the conflict between two peoples over the one land they both call home. But his own homeland was elsewhere.
In his lyrical prose style, Apo interweaves two stories: first of his ancestors, who survived the Armenian Genocide and joined a resilient Armenian diaspora in Palestine.
Then his own story: that of a hipster band leader from Jerusalem who volunteers to support his homeland in its 2020 war with Azerbaijan and ends up at a checkpoint - not between Israel and Palestine, but between Armenia and the disputed territory of Arsakh.
Apo's story is atmospheric, poignant, and informative, with the just right touch of humor. It's a story of displacement, longing, the horrors of war, and the eternal pull of a homeland. And it's the story we need to read now.
APO SAHAGIAN was born in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem to a family that settled there as survivors of the Armenian Genocide. He earned a BA in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and an MA in Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest. A contributor to Haaretz and The Armenian Weekly, Apo also co-hosts Unholy Talks, a podcast that delves into local and international issues through a Jerusalemite perspective. He spends his time between Jerusalem, and Yerevan, Armenia.
Apo is well-known for his solo renditions of Armenian folk songs and leads the superb Arabic pop-rock band, Apo & the Apostles. For a sample, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwS0q-k1bPY
That same war has driven tens of thousands of Russians abroad in protest. And if projections are correct, millions of climate refugees will be displaced from their homelands and forced to find shelter elsewhere.
Displacement and diaspora are defining issues of our time.
This book is a love story from the Armenian diaspora, an epic longing for homeland that transcends time and space.
Apo Sahagian grew up in the Old City of Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter, and from his perch on the seam between Israeli West Jerusalem and Palestinian East Jerusalem, Apo has a front-row view of the conflict between two peoples over the one land they both call home. But his own homeland was elsewhere.
In his lyrical prose style, Apo interweaves two stories: first of his ancestors, who survived the Armenian Genocide and joined a resilient Armenian diaspora in Palestine.
Then his own story: that of a hipster band leader from Jerusalem who volunteers to support his homeland in its 2020 war with Azerbaijan and ends up at a checkpoint - not between Israel and Palestine, but between Armenia and the disputed territory of Arsakh.
Apo's story is atmospheric, poignant, and informative, with the just right touch of humor. It's a story of displacement, longing, the horrors of war, and the eternal pull of a homeland. And it's the story we need to read now.
APO SAHAGIAN was born in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem to a family that settled there as survivors of the Armenian Genocide. He earned a BA in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and an MA in Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest. A contributor to Haaretz and The Armenian Weekly, Apo also co-hosts Unholy Talks, a podcast that delves into local and international issues through a Jerusalemite perspective. He spends his time between Jerusalem, and Yerevan, Armenia.
Apo is well-known for his solo renditions of Armenian folk songs and leads the superb Arabic pop-rock band, Apo & the Apostles. For a sample, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwS0q-k1bPY
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