For this episode, our team interviewed Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor & Director of Human Rights Studies at UC Davis, about the parallels between the Armenian Genocide (Medz Yeghern) and the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians (al-Nakba).
We discuss the importance of his regional, comparative approach to the study of genocide and why survivors and their descendants have a special role in calling out genocide when they see it.
You can read his full piece on the JGR website here.
Books recommended by Prof. Watenpaugh
- Justice For Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (by Noura Erakat)
- Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (by Elyse Semerdjian)