by thehyephenmag@gmail.com | Oct 5, 2023 | Essay
I first saw The Color of Pomegranates at my university cinema with a friend. It is a famous Armenian film, from 1969, about the Medieval poet Sayat Nova. It was a movie about a poet with no dialogue, more like a ninety minute performance art piece. I left the theater...
by thehyephenmag@gmail.com | Nov 2, 2014 | Essay
The thing that no one warns immigrant kids in the U.S. is that if you veer off the beaten path your parents have laid out for you, they say you are betraying your heritage. The thing that no one warned me, as an immigrant taken from my place of birth as a baby, raised...