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    Book on Armenian genocide by Turks concerns Kurds

    Kurdish Media
    June 6 2004

    London (KurdishMedia.com) 06 June 2004:

    BooK: THEY CALLED ME MUSTAFA: MEMOIR OF AN IMMIGRANT by Khachadoor
    (Archie) Pilibosian, edited and coathored by Helene Pilibosian, is the
    story of Khachadoor, a boy caught in the Armenian Genocide, kidnapped
    by a Kurd and years later escapes slavery to emigrate to America.

    Detailed are his birthplace of Ichmeh in Armenia and Armenian immigrant
    life in Watertown, Mass., including his employment at the first
    Star Market store in Watertown Square and his own store, Huron Spa
    in Cambridge. His acquaintance with artist Arshile Gorky and Yenovk
    Der Hagopian, singer of Armenian troubadour songs, is recorded.

    Added for a second edition, Part II includes English translations
    of his poems and stories presented for their authenticity of fact
    and emotion. They were translated by Hagop Sarkissian with Helene
    Pilibosian, who also wrote Notes on Part II, analyzing the reasons for
    writing about genocide. With nostalgic photographs. ISBN 1-929966-04-0,
    187 pages, paper, $16 (add $2 shipping).

    This book has been licensed for the award-winning academic database
    North American Immigrant Diaries, Letters and Oral Histories published
    by Alexander Street Press.

    MASSACHUSETTS STATE REPRESENTATIVE Warren Tolman read the Author’s
    Preface at the April 24, 1992, Commemoration at the State House in
    Boston. He added, "It is a very, very powerful book."

    NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FORMER SENIOR LECTURER Charles T. Ajamian
    wrote in The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, "It is a compelling story. It
    affords new and corroborating insights into the Genocide.’

    MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: "Highly recommended."

    Available at Ohan Press, 171 Maplewood St., Watertown, MA 02472-1324
    [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~hsarkiss. Also available
    at amazon.com, bn.com, Baker & Taylor
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