Armenian International Women's Association

In Association with Armenian Research Center,
Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn
Present

Finding Zabel Yesayan
A Documentary by Lara Aharonian and Talin Suciyan
Followed by discussion with Talin Suciyan
An Armenian writer, activist, and feminist, Zabel Yesayan was one of the most prominent Armenian intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a member of an Armenian fact-finding delegation, she witnessed the aftermath of
the bloody massacres of Adana in 1909 and gave a stark account in Averagneru Mech (Among the Ruins). The only woman on the "black list" of the Armenian
intellectuals arrested on the night of April 24, 1915, she was able to escape to Bulgaria. After the war, she immigrated to Soviet Armenia and in the 1940s
died under mysterious circumstances, a victim of Stalin's Great Purge.

Finding Zabel Yesayan, a 40-minute documentary, traces the writer's turbulent life and is based on family archives, novels, documents, photographs, and
reflections on her life and work by descendants, acquaintances, and scholars.

Talin Suciyan is an Istanbul Armenian journalist who lived in Armenia from 2007-08. She is currently based in Munich, where she is pursuing her graduate studies and serves as a teaching fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. She has contributed regularly to Agos (from 2007-2010) and other Turkish newspapers.

(NAASR)