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Watch GagruleLive Queens of Syria: a documentary tells the story of fifty women from Syria, Video

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Los Angeles: Queens of Syria (the documentary) Film screened at UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium,

Tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war. Not one of them had ever acted before.

What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War. It was a process charged with emotion and fraught with challenges, as long buried issues came to the surface, and at times the project itself hung in the balance.
Post-show discussion and reception to follow.

 

Watch GagruleLive Coverage “Intent to Destroy” Film Screening, The Promise institute UCLA

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Intent to Destroy Documentary

By Wally Sarkeesian

UCLA: October 12th the The Promise institute for Human right presented Special Advance Screening of the critically-acclaimed documentary Intent to Destroy directed by award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger. The room 1458 was packed with attendees young and old,  the Director of The promise Institut Asli Bali PHD. began welcoming the audience with brief introduction. shortly After the film, she convene a panel featuring Intent to Destroy producers Dr. Eric Esrailian,  Carla Garapedian and legendary Hollywood film producer Mike Medavoy. Followed with reception.

By shining a light on the mechanism of denial over the past century—and the aggressive suppression of genocide depiction—he aims to extinguish the notion of any “debate” by revealing the absurdity of denial against the irrefutable facts he comprehensively lays out in the film.

Pulling back the curtain on Genocide censorship in Hollywood due to U.S. government pressure to appease a strategic ally, Intent To Destroy embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century.

Joe Berlinger’s thirteenth feature documentary film captures the cinematic and political challenges of producing a historically meaningful, big-budget feature film in an environment rife with political suppression and threats of retaliation. By intertwining these three separate threads – the modern day production of The Promise, the history of the Genocide and the century of international repression – Intent To Destroy coalesces to provide a comprehensive view on the atrocities of 1915 to 1923 and their resounding aftermath right up until the present day.

As Elie Wiesel has so eloquently stated, the final stage of Genocide is denial. Intent to Destroy pulls back the curtain of political resistance and historical amnesia to finally present a more complete account of Armenia – the Genocide, its delayed recognition and a nearly forgotten history of suffering and heroism in the hope of inspiring a collective sense of international justice and humanity.

 

Gagrulelive Interview: Judith Saryan the legacy of Zabel Yessayan Essay Contest in Artsakh

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By Wally Sarkeesian:  October 5, 2017 We had the honor to meet and interview Judith Saryan in yerevan and today Live on Facebook.  she is passionately following the life of  Zabel Yessayan. she is also launch Artsakh’s Second Annual Human Rights Essay Contest. The contest is initiated and run by Artsakh’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Ruben Melikyan, with support from Judith Saryan.

The contest has two objectives: First, the contest will introduce the students of Artsakh to a leading Armenian writer and human rights activist who bridged the history of both Western and Eastern Armenia in the early 20th century. Zabel Yessayan was a pioneering author and political activist who fought for human rights and free speech in the Ottoman Empire, Soviet Armenia, and the Soviet Union. However, as Yessayan’s works are largely excluded from literature curricula across schools in Artsakh, most of the local youth are unfamiliar with the inspiring life and writings of this groundbreaking writer.

 

This is Edited Version on YouTube

Iraqi Kurdistan Referendum, Conversation with Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs “Video”

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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.”

Topic Iraqi Kurdistan Referendum: GagruleLive on FAcebook
Conversation with “Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.” and Wally Sarkeesian Founder.

Erdogan war drums are beating. The tanks are lined up on the border. The threats are loud and fierce. Economic reprisals are promised. is Erdogan threat series or bluffing?

Alliance in Middle East change by days, 

  • who will stop Turkey for going into Iraq and annexing Kurdistan?
  • why Israel supporting kurd independence while Israel has his own problem with Palestine?
  • will Russia and USA eventually recognize Kurdistan?
  • will Kurd stop at Iraqi border?
  • Have look at Kurdish map expansion they even put claim on the Armenia?
  • did Kurd ever had a country or even a kingdom?

Wally Sarkeesian Touring Historical Armenian Village ANJAR Lebanon Video

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Watch how Armenian Turn Lebanon swamp and desert into Greenland, Anjar the Armenian from Mount Mossadegh.
If you saw the movie The Promise, then you will understand the history of this village.

Nearly 250 men took part in the defense, fighting off Turkish armies in June 1915.[1] The Armenians had refused deportation and fled to the highest mountain in the town, and from July to September 1915 they defended themselves until French ships rescued them.[1] Starting in 1918, when Sanjak of Alexandretta came under French control, six Armenian villages returned to their homes.

In 1932 a monument was erected at the top of the mountain to commemorate the event.[10] On 29 June 1939, following an agreement between France and Turkey, the province was given to Turkey. Afterwards Armenians from six of the villages emigrated from Hatay, while some of the residents of Vakıflı village chose to stay.[11] Vakıflı is the only remaining ethnic Armenian village in Turkey,[12][13] with a population only 140 Turkish-Armenians. Most who left Hatay in 1939 immigrated to Lebanon where they resettled in the town of Anjar. Today, the town of Anjar is divided into six districts, each commemorating one of the villages of Musa Dagh.

As the French squads came to the rescue of the remaining survivors, the chief priest was quoted to say: “The evil only happened … to enable God to show us His goodness

Wally Sarkeesian Interview Shen NGO Group Yerevan Armenia “Video”

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Shen NGO InterviewBy Wally Sarkeesian,

It was pleasure meeting and interviewing the Shen.am organization in Yerevan, Armenia including the representative from  Shen France. doing great work, hardworking and wonderful people trying to help rural area of Armenian. These are the unsung heroes working every day by helping the villagers take care of their land and become more productive.

About Shen NGO

Shen NGO was created in 1988 by a group of professors and students of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute to address some of the urgent humanitarian problems of Armenia. Since then Shen as an NGO involved in development endeavours in over 350 rural communities of Armenia passed through almost all the stages of Rural Development area, such as:

  • Humanitarian Aid;
  • Integrated Approach to Rural Development;
  • Infrastructures Rehabilitation in rural communities;
  • Asset Based Community Development;
  • Value Chain Development using Markets for Poor (M4P) approach;
  • Agricultural Cooperative Development.

The cornerstone of all Shen development projects is long-term sustainability which is our vision since the establishment for all the implemented activities in over 350 rural communities of Armenia. During the last decade Shen engaged the facilitative leadership approach in its economic development projects (M4P projects) considering the potential vital role of Market Forces in income generation for rural population. This has been accomplished with significant support of our sister NGO Chene France, Yalkezian Foundation and several other Armenian Diaspora organisations. We would also like to acknowledge hereby our sponsors – World Council of Churches, Christian Aid (UK), IFAD, BfdW (Germany), ICCO (the Netherlands), Oxfam Novib (the Netherlands), HEKS-EPER (Switzerland), KASA Foundation (Switzerland), UNDP, UNFPA, USDA, FAO, DFID, USAID, SDC (Switzerland), Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

Almost all projects include Capacity Building components aiming at transfer of minimum necessary knowledge and skills to its beneficiaries to ensure further sustainability of the projects. Shen NGO has also positive experience of cooperation with big companies within Corporate Social Responsibility model (e.g. Orange, France Telecom).

read more on www.shen.am

Video-Interview & Touring Armenian Aviation Center, A system Comparable to the world Best,

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By Wally Sarkeesian,
(YEREVAN) It might surprise many of the Armenian Diaspora used to hearing about institutional shortcomings in Armenia’s government services, but the aviation regulator (the General Department of Civil Aviation, and air traffic control agency ARMATS is comparable or better than many of the world’s developed nations, according to the UN’s aviation watchdog, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).  Both Armenian agencies are based at Zvartnots International Airport, Yerevan.

Ranked at an impressive 85% compliance with ICAO’s international standards, this better than Sweden (84%) and Turkey (84%) and just below that of Germany (90%) and the United States (91%). By comparison, Russia has a rating of only 71% and Azerbaijan has a lowly 43%. In fact an earlier audit of Armenia in 2007 had awarded an even higher score at 96% to Armenia, one of the best in the world!
According to visiting ICAO Regional Officer Air Traffic Management Len Wicks, Armenians should recognise the excellent work by the aviation regulator and ARMATS to provide a safe and efficient aviation system. He particularly noted the modern air traffic control system that ARMATS had installed, which was able to manage all current air traffic demands safely and efficiently. Mr. Wicks expected that more flights would operate through Armenian airspace, especially given the conflicts affecting many of the neighbouring nations.
ARMATS Director General Artur Gasparyan agreed that Armenia was fully capable of handling much more air traffic and even the future ‘free flight’ environment planned by Europe. Armenia is a member of the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL), unlike Azerbaijan.
Armenia has managed, despite all the difficulties for a small nation, to develop an excellent aviation system to safely welcome travellers like tourists, businessmen and diaspora to landlocked Armenia. It’s something all Armenians can be proud of.
Gagrule.net like to Thank All leadership of  “Armats” Armenian air navigation service for the great hospitality 
Mr. Len Wicks for his expertise,
and Liana Vardanian for assisting with the Interview.