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Meline Toumani
American author and journalist
Meline Toumani (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Her memoir There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
In 2019, she joined the faculty at Bard College to teach in their Globalization and International Affairs program.
Early life and education
Toumani was born to Iranian-Armenian parents in Tehran, Iran, although her family moved to North America by the time she turned two.[2] She grew up in an Armenian community in New Jersey[3] and attended Camp Armenia in Massachusetts where she learned Genocide doctrines.[clarification needed][4] One of the focuses of the camp was to teach hatred of Turkish natives and when she grew older, she used their various newsletters in her memoir.[5]
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