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Simon Maghakyan

@simonforco

Political scientist researching heritage and security at @UniofOxford. Author of Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy & the Material Past @CambridgeUP.

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Simon Maghakyan@simonforco·
🆕 My first book (a @Cambridge_Uni Element) is now out open-access! Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, & the Material Past offers a brief intro to a new theoretical framework on state-sponsored cultural erasure: cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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RT @EastViewPeeps: SALE STARTS TODAY! Use code DISCOUNT50 to take 50% off select print titles from from Monday, July 20 to Monday, August…
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Armenia’s top state university is firing yet another dissident lecturer
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Had the honor of hosting @JohnLechner1 in my Colorado College course on Russia in the Spring to discuss his excellent book, Death Is Our Business, which my students enjoyed reading.
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In October, at Oxford, and then in December, at UCLA, I unveiled a new theoretical explanation for cultural destruction. Until yesterday the video of the event was embargoed but it is now available online youtube.com/live/hd8bOXp_H…
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Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social
Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social@DrArtyomTonoyan·
A shot in the dark, but does anyone here have access to this book and want to share with me? Tried Amazon, but they won't deliver to the US and the only copy on Abebooks is $113 for shipping from Germany, which is insane.
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Kegham Balian
Kegham Balian@kbalian90·
This is an insult to the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire, to be used as a bargaining chip to ignite the ire of Turkey. In 2020, during the 44 Day War, Israel, ALONGSIDE Turkey, supplied Azerbaijan with intelligence and cutting-edge weaponry, leading to the killing of 5,000 Armenian soldiers, culminating in the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), and the mass exodus of 150,000 Armenians from their 2,000-year-old homeland. We will not allow the suffering of our people to be used for political weaponization. You want to recognize the Armenian Genocide? Do it on moral grounds, if you have any left.
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Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער@gidonsaar

I will bring before the Israeli government at its next meeting a proposed resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide. Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is both a moral and historical duty. We must also firmly condemn any denial, minimization, or distortion of the historical truth. The resolution will subsequently be brought before the Knesset for a vote.

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Simon Maghakyan@simonforco·
The same gov’t that helped Turkey-Azerbaijan ethnically cleanse Armenians in 2023 is now recognizing the Armenian Genocide to punish Turkey for protesting the genocide in Gaza. No, thank you.
Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער@gidonsaar

I will bring before the Israeli government at its next meeting a proposed resolution for the official recognition by the Government of Israel of the Armenian Genocide. Recognizing the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in the final years of the Ottoman Empire is both a moral and historical duty. We must also firmly condemn any denial, minimization, or distortion of the historical truth. The resolution will subsequently be brought before the Knesset for a vote.

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CaucasusHeritageWatch
CaucasusHeritageWatch@CaucasusHW·
Our book is out! Based on CHW’s research on the Nagorno-Karabakh wars, HERITAGE FORENSICS offers a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing and secrecy. Download free Ebook or order with 30% discount code 09BCARD #bookTabs=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178…
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Amberin Zaman
Amberin Zaman@amberinzaman·
“I am not surprised to hear that Krikor is being considered for such a prestigious position,” recalls Denver-based political scientist Simon Maghakyan @simonforco, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, who got to know Der-Hagopian during the latter’s graduate studies in Denver. “I remember him as a bright, sincere, and strategic thinker and bridge-builder,” Maghakyan told Al-Monitor.
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🚨 BREAKING | Iraq taps Krikor Der-Hagopian as first Armenian Christian ambassador to US Baghdad’s pick of a US-educated Armenian Christian adviser as envoy to the US underscores a bid to reset US-Iraq ties, @amberinzaman writes. al-monitor.com/originals/2026…

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AL-MONITOR@AlMonitor·
🚨 BREAKING | Iraq taps Krikor Der-Hagopian as first Armenian Christian ambassador to US Baghdad’s pick of a US-educated Armenian Christian adviser as envoy to the US underscores a bid to reset US-Iraq ties, @amberinzaman writes. al-monitor.com/originals/2026…
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Senator Adam Schiff
Senator Adam Schiff@SenAdamSchiff·
Today marks 1,000 days since Azerbaijan began unlawfully detaining Artsakh Armenians as prisoners of war. The ongoing inhumane treatment and arbitrary detention of Armenian POWs is a grave violation of human rights and international law. We must use every diplomatic tool to hold Azerbaijan and the Aliyev regime accountable. All Armenian POWs must be immediately and safely returned home.
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Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social
Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social@DrArtyomTonoyan·
Armenian democracy under Pashinyan is maturing and collapsing as fast as American supermarket chicken under its own weight. Myopathy
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Breaking Armenia: The entire department of world literature at the Yerevan State University is reportedly facing closure as apparent punishment for its chair Prof. Anush Sedrakyan’s participation, as a candidate, in last week’s parliamentary election hraparak.am/am/post/957193…

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Simon Maghakyan@simonforco·
Breaking Armenia: The entire department of world literature at the Yerevan State University is reportedly facing closure as apparent punishment for its chair Prof. Anush Sedrakyan’s participation, as a candidate, in last week’s parliamentary election hraparak.am/am/post/957193…
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Hov Nazaretyan
Hov Nazaretyan@HovhanNaz·
what to watch in today’s Armenian vote: –high turnout could be sign of lower support for Pashinyan –Kocharyan’s Armenia Alliance faces an 8% threshold, double what it is for parties –will any smaller oppo parties (Tatoyan, Marutyan) enter parliament
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It will be interesting to see how Yerevan votes in June. Pashinyan received just 41% in 2021, a full 20% lower than in the regions outside the capital. The latest IRI poll showed support for his party in Yerevan is nearly half of what it is in the provinces.

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Simon Maghakyan@simonforco·
Print copies of my short theoretical book/element are available from cambridge.org/core/elements/…. If you are on the fence on buying it or reading the free online version, here is a generous endorsement by Prof. Ronald Grigor Suny:
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Siranush Sargsyan
Siranush Sargsyan@SiranushSargsy1·
That progress means little to Anahit who fled #NagornoKarabakh after her husband was killed “I feel like my voice will not be heard,Justice, for me, is not realistic. It's very hard for me to look my mother, my grandmother,who lost their kids in the eyes."reuters.com/world/armenias…
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Amberin Zaman
Amberin Zaman@amberinzaman·
JUST IN 🇦🇲 My impressions from Armenia in the run up to Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Never has one invited as much foreign meddling al-monitor.com/originals/2026…
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Grigor Atanesian
Grigor Atanesian@atanessi·
But EU leaders ignore arrests and prosecutions, praising Armenia’s democracy, because Pashinyan presents these cases as a fight against Russian influence. Read my analysis (in Russian) bbc.com/russian/articl… or listen to this BBC podcast (English) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
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