My Brother's Road An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia

by Melkonian, Markar

• ISBN13: 9781845115302
• ISBN10: 1845115309
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780857733061
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• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Summary

What do "Abu Sindi", "Timothy Sean McCormack", "Saro", and "Commander Avo" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unraveling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestor's town in Turkey and led to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the Cold War and the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? My Brother's Road is not just the story of a long journey and a short life -it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

Author Biography

Markar Melkonian is a teacher, writer and veteran solidarity worker. Melkonian's books include Marxism: A Post-Cold War Primer (1996) and Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (1999). He is a founder and a member of the Board of Directors of The Monte Melkonian Fund, Inc., a nonprofit organization that assists the neediest of the needy in the impoverished former Soviet Republic of Armenia (www.melkonian.org). He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

The Evil Eye in some Greek villages of the upper Haliakmon Valley in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 53, (1923)
The Nonconformist Moslems of Albania
Contemporary Review, London, 127 (1925)
The Basil-cake of the Greek new year
Folk-Lore, 38 (1927)
Minorities in Serbian Macedonia
The Fortnightly Review, 125 (1 June 1929)
An unknown Turkish shrine in Western Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1929	p. 289-296
Physiological paternity and belated birth in Albanian
Man, London 32 (1932)
Bride-price in Albania. A Homeric parallel
Man, London, 33 (1933)
An Albanian ballad on the assassination in 1389 of Sultan Murad I on Kosovo Plain
Gaster anniversary volume (Taylor's Foreign Press, London 1936)
A historical sketch of the fluctuations of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 87, 4 (June 1936)
The archaeological history of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 88, 5 (Nov. 1936)
Causes of the fluctuation in level of Lake Ostrovo. West Macedonia
From the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 90, 5 (Nov. 1937)
The gypsies of Albania
The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Third Series)
Couvade in Albania
Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society London (Feb. 1939)
Albanian phrase book
Source: Bland
Published for military use
The bust of Berat
Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, London (1946)
Oedipus rex in Albania
Folk-Lore, 60 (1949)
The first cradle of an Albanian child
Man, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, London, 50 (1950)
A record of the customary law of the Albanian tribes
Description of family and village life... & waging of blood-feuds
The unwritten law in Albania (CUP, Cambridge 1954, reprint Hyperion Conn 1981)
The Albanian blood feud
Law and warfare, Studies in the Anthropology of Conflict - Paul Bohannan (ed.), American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology, Garden City, Natural History Press, 1967
The Evil Eye in some Greek villages of the upper Haliakmon Valley in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 53, (1923)
The Nonconformist Moslems of Albania
Contemporary Review, London, 127 (1925)
The Basil-cake of the Greek new year
Folk-Lore, 38 (1927)
Minorities in Serbian Macedonia
The Fortnightly Review, 125 (1 June 1929)
An unknown Turkish shrine in Western Macedonia
the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1929	p. 289-296
Physiological paternity and belated birth in Albanian
Man, London 32 (1932)
Bride-price in Albania. A Homeric parallel
Man, London, 33 (1933)
An Albanian ballad on the assassination in 1389 of Sultan Murad I on Kosovo Plain
Gaster anniversary volume (Taylor's Foreign Press, London 1936)
A historical sketch of the fluctuations of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 87, 4 (June 1936)
The archaeological history of Lake Ostrovo in West Macedonia
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 88, 5 (Nov. 1936)
Causes of the fluctuation in level of Lake Ostrovo, West Macedonia
From the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 90, 5 (Nov. 1937)
The gypsies of Albania
The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society (Third Series)
Couvade in Albania
Man
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