This essay brings to the fore a condition that afflicts the tongues of those of us attempting to speak: through bearing witness so that history will not forget us, we consume ourselves beyond ...recognition or repair. Drawing on my interior life as Lebanese, Arab, Arab-American and a former journalist, I make the case that the near-universal framing of ongoing crises in Lebanon as unprecedented enables, and indeed makes necessary, witnessing outside history. This essay makes plain passions and superlatives, endemic to our language as writers in and of English, which amputate the very possibility of a collective. Nowhere is this more at play than in the plethora of first-person witnessing and personal essays following the 4 August 2020 port bombing of Beirut. Ultimately, this essay raises the question of how, and whether it is possible, to speak without consuming the self. As a means of redressing that question, this essay espouses the language of those doing the living, or 'surviving.' It does not feature translations. To borrow from Toni Morrison, this essay does not speak for, nor does it speak to. It speaks among.
Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany's ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not ...alleviate Poland's hostility to the plundering of its resources to fuel Germany's war effort.
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.
Do r. 3 cz. 3 (26 marca 1917 r.) tyt.: Dziennik Urzędowy Ces. i Król. Komendy Obwodowej w Lublinie
Until 3rd part 3 (March 26, 1917) tit.Public Journal and King. District Headquarters in Lublin
From r. 3 (June 20, 1917) tit.Public Journal and King. District Headquarters in Lublin
Od r. 3 (20 czerwca 1917 r.) tyt.: Dziennik Urzędowy Ces. i Król. Komendy Powiatowej w Lublinie
