Marina Manoukian
School
Sarah Lawrence College, Freie Universität Berlin
Expertise
Historical Injustice, Literature, Diseases
- After writing about the history of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus for Grunge, the SFGCM reposted her article on their website.
- Her review of Mimi Lok's "Last of Her Name" was featured in Full Stop Review's 2019 Reviews Supplement
- The first time she read "War and Peace" she finished it in under 15 hours. Since then she has been working on reading every English translation.
Experience
Marina has been writing for over a decade, and her works range from prose poetry to non-fiction historical essays. She has written for websites like The Baffler and Literary Hub in addition to being a regular writer for Pussy Magic. Full Stop Review and Arts Fuse have also published her book reviews. She is working on a poetry collection.
Education
Marina has studied literature, philosophy, creative writing, and philology in her years in academia, and she is constantly working to synthesize information from a variety of viewpoints. She has a Masters degree in English Philology.
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Stories By Marina Manoukian
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Extrajudicial killings are nothing new in the history of Israel. But the Bus 300 affair showed how far the Shin Bet was willing to go to protect its own.
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Here's the story of the strip search phone call scam, in which unsuspecting victims were coerced into performing lewd acts at fast-food chains.
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The 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish civilians in Halabja, Iraq, is one of the most horrific examples of genocide and ethnic cleansing in history.
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Although petroleum spills are the oil spills that come to mind most readily, spills involving vegetable oils or animal fats have similarly disastrous effects.
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Charges filed against Sarah Mardini in 2018 by Greek authorities have stirred up controversy around the world. Here's the trial of Mardini explained.
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Although the genocide against the Kurdish people in Iraq lasted less than one year, the devastation it wreaked was unfathomable. This is the Anfal explained.
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The history of the world's first true "penitentiary," inspired by Quaker ideology, is long, dark, and twisted.
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For over 100 years, the Cuyahoga River, which runs through downtown Cleveland, intermittently burst into flames as industrial waste was dumped into the waters.
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Few realize that one of the oldest rivalries in U.S. history is associated with one of the worst accidents in U.S. sporting history.
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In a 78-day armed standoff, the Kanien'kehà:ka (or Mohawk) people in Canada fought for their right to their land. Here's the full story of the 1990 Oka Crisis.
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For over 50 years, Cyprus has been divided, but the lines of its division were drawn much earlier. Here is a review of why Cyprus is divided.
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The first convictions for the use of excessive force in LAPD history occurred in 1952. This is the tragic real-life story of Bloody Christmas.
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Tort laws are used to determine who's legally liable. Here are some of the most famous frivolous lawsuits that weren't actually that frivolous.
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Most recognize 1950 as the year the U.S. invaded Korea to begin the Korean War. Actually, U.S. forces forged an attack on the country nearly a century prior.
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After having survived being POWs in the Civil War, tragically, hundreds of soldiers ended up taking their last breath on a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
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When Julia Pastrana died at the young age of 26, she was known as the "world's ugliest woman." This is the tragic story of sideshow star Julia Pastrana.
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The Texas City Disaster is the worst industrial accident that the United States has ever experienced. This is the tragic true story of the Texas City disaster.
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Although hundreds of mass graves are known, not all of them have actually been excavated. These are some of the largest mass graves ever discovered.
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The Doctors' Riot of 1788 saw a mob turn on doctors and medical students to the point where some were run out of town. Here's how grave robbing led to the riot.
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The Frisbee as we know it today came out of a lazy afternoon and a mother's cake pan.
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As Europe experiences record-breaking temperatures in 2022, many are looking back at another devastating heat wave that took place nearly 20 years ago.
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The first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was a staunch anti-colonialist. This is his tragic true story.
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In the 1960s and '70s, a group of Illinois women took it upon themselves to help people access safe abortions. Here is the untold truth of the Jane Collective.
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Here are just a few chilling details about the human experiments that took place at Holmesburg Prison. These trials often had lasting effects for prisoners.
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Although prison rodeos have been around as early as 1931, none of them have outlasted the Angola prison rodeo in Louisiana. Here's the messed-up truth about it.
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The Father of Gynecology, J. Marion Sims, often experimented on enslaved women against their will, but his work has earned him acclaim from the medical field.
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Few things about Ruja Ignatova's life are known for certain. But one thing we know is Ignatova is responsible for the biggest cryptocurrency fraud in history.