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Raffi Joe Wartanian

Raffi Joe Wartanian’s essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, and elsewhere. In 2017, he founded Letters for Peace. He teaches writing at UCLA. 

Finding Love Amid War: On Shahé Mankerian’s “History of Forgetfulness” and Vahe Berberian’s “Diary of a Dead Man”

Raffi Joe Wartanian reviews new books by two Armenian American writers, Shahé Mankerian and Vahe Berberian....

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Dispatch from the Frontlines of Conflict Transformation

On September 27, Azerbaijan’s government launched an aggressive military campaign to resolve disputes over the indigenous Armenian enclave of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). After the fall of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan waged a six-year war to seize the region. Their unsuccessful bid ...