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By (author) Mouradian, Khatchig
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The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide.
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The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts, official documents, and missionary records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. He ultimately argues that, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration camps, and massacre sites in this region, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered—unarmed resistance proved an important factor in saving countless lives.
Table of contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Genocide and Urban Resistance Chapter One. Before the Storm: Deportation and Humanitarian Relief Chapter Two. Aleppo: Urban Resistance to Redeportation Part Two. From the City to the Desert Chapter Three. Wartime Civilian Internment: Concentration Camps in Ottoman Syria Chapter Four. Gateways to the Desert: The Sebil, Karlık, and Bab Camps Chapter Five. Along the Euphrates: The Meskeneh Concentration Camp Part Three. Der Zor Bound Chapter Six. Death and Resilience: The Military Supply Line Chapter Seven. Zor: That Immense Graveyard of Our Martyrs Chapter Eight. Surviving Talaat: The Network’s Legacy Notes Bibliography Index
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2022 National Association for Armenian Studies and Research Aronian Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies — 2022 National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
2021 Syrian Studies Association honorable mention — Syrian Studies Association
Biographical note:
Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review and in 2020 was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University.
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