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Jackie Abrahamian

Jackie Abrahamian is a journalist and Public Relations Consultant living in Boston. She has written prolifically on Kurdish and Armenian issues, especially around the areas where Armenian and Kurdish histories overlap. Her first book “Conversations with Contemporary Armenian Artists” was dedicated to Yilmaz Guney, one of the founders of the Kurdish Institute in Paris.

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The Yezidi movement in Armenia

Following yesterday’s Interview with Karlene Chachani by Onnik Krikorian, where reference was made to an article by Jackie Abrahamian, we felt it would be useful to bring this article to the reader’s attention. The Yezidi movement in Armenia First published in “Kurdistan Report”, September 1992 Since 1828 when the Kurds first immigrated to Armenia (fleeing the Russo-Turkish wars) Kurdish culture has flourished rapidly in the smallest of the former Soviet republics which in 1991 gained independence....

July 2, 1998 · Jackie Abrahamian