- Laylā Qaṣrānī (1967-, Iraq) – Al-Ṭuyūr al-ʿAmyāʾ (‘The blind birds’, 2016). The story of this novel takes place in the Armenian village of Tūrbāzār, near Diyarbakır, where the citizens are forcibly displaced because they refuse to join the army of the Ottoman empire in their war with Russia in the 19th (reference). It centers the Armenian girl Kūhār, who describes how her family is displaced after an Ottoman officer slaughters 40 Armenian children. The story continues to follow the villagers’ excruciating journey into exile (also in 1800 – 1920: Ottoman Period).
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- Farīq al-ʿAmal. 2019. “Adab al-Aqaliyyāt.. 4 riwāyāt Taḥkī lak al-Jānib al-Majhūl min al-Qiṣṣah al-Siyāsiyah.” www.sasapost.com, 28 December 2019 www.sasapost.com/minority-literature/ (last accessed 16 November 2022)