Armenian Genocide Film “The Promise” is Painfully Reminiscent of Today’s Refugee Crisis

For producer Eric Esrailian, the great-grandson of Armenian genocide survivors, his film The Promise fulfills a dream to break through the silence and denial surrounding the Armenian Genocide.

Oscar Isaac as Armenian medical student Mikael Boghosian in 2017 film "The Promise."

by Sarah Moawad

No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.

The oft-cited quote from Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s “Home” – a heart-wrenching ode to the displaced and the disenfranchised, to perilous journeys in search of security and…