Syria’s Armenian community resilient, but faces uncertain future
Syrian Armenians, despite the fragility of their presence in the region, are determined to stay and rebuild.
Nora Bulbulian is in the hunt for a good publisher. “I’m in the process of trying to find someone in the US. I’m asking around but it is kind of difficult.”
Finding a publisher can be a harrowing process for any young author, but in this case, Bulbulian is doing the search from her home in Aleppo, Syria. Still, she seems up to the challenge. “We are a people who have been there and done that. We saw it all,” Bulbilian, 30, told Al-Monitor in a phone interview.
Bulbulian, who says she loves children, wrote two children's books before the war.
“I didn’t want to write about Aleppo. I wanted to write children's books. But the crisis that we went through, the pain and heartache, I had to write about what we were going through,” she said. “I write with intensity. This book has taken a toll on me.”
