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Zabel Yessayan: A Brave New Voice
Judith Saryan
Ms. Saryan presents the early years of Zabel Yessayan's lifelong commitment to writing and activism.

Zabel Yessayan: A Brave New Voice
Zabel Yessayan was one of the leading voices of her time, an advocate for social justice and women’s rights in Ottoman Armenian society. In this video, Judith Saryan describes an important period in Yessayan’s life, when at 17 she left her childhood home in Constantinople to study at the Sorbonne in Paris and began what would become a lifelong career in writing and activism. Unafraid to fight for her convictions even in the face of harsh criticism, Zabel published essays and articles about women’s issues both in Paris and back at home in Constantinople, where she would eventually return to continue her work.

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