Lucine Kasbarian

Lucine Kasbarian
Name in Armenian	Լուսին Գասպարեան
Languages	Armenian, English
Ethnicities	Armenian
Dialects	Western Armenian

Journalist; political cartoonist; book publicist

In-house publicity, promotion and/or marketing history with Alfred A. Knopf; Hearst Books; Red Wheel, Weiser & Conari Press; Progressive Book Publicity

Bachelor’s Degree: New York University, NYC

Major: Journalism; Minors: Political Science and Studio Art

Graduate Studies: School of Visual Arts, NYC

Concentration: Illustration and cartooning

Author of ARMENIA: A Rugged Land, An Enduring People (1998, Dillon Press/Simon & Schuster) (A 1998 'Bank Street Best Books of the Year' selection.)

ARMENIA: A Rugged Land, An Enduring People offers a comprehensive introduction to the land, history and culture of the Armenian people in a condensed, easy-to-read format designed for both children and adults. Within 11 chapters, ARMENIA explores the origins and history of the Armenians, describes the geographical characteristics of the country, notes the achievements of pioneering Armenians, documents the events and evidence surrounding the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and describes what life is like in the country today. A quick read for adults and a comprehensive overview for children, this book offers all readers a wonderful introduction to the people, land, history and culture of Armenia. Insightful and inspiring, it's a great gift to share with friends to help understand who we are as Armenians...a must-have for reading and reference.

Author of "The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale" (2011, Marshall Cavendish/Two Lions) (A Silver Award-winner in the Nautilus Book Awards 2013, and an Honor Book in the 2012 Storytelling World Resources Awards.)

The Greedy Sparrow was handed down orally through the generations of Kasbarians’ family (in the Western Armenian dialect of Dikranagerd) before the author translated it into English for this illustrated picture book for children. Armenian poet Hovhannes Toumanian was the first to record this folk tale on paper (and in the Eastern Armenian dialect) at the turn of the 20th century. The tale tells of a sparrow who catches a thorn in his foot. As he asks for help, he sets off an intriguing cycle of action that transports him through the Armenian countryside, encountering people engaged in traditional folkways. The tale ends with a surprising twist and conveys moral messages about greed, selfishness, and using one’s judgment.

Subject of Perspectives from Exile, published for the multi-part art exhibition series, Kiss the Ground (Yergurbakoutiun), produced by Curator Todd Bartel, the Thompson Gallery and the Cambridge School of Weston, Mass. in honor of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide (April, 2015)

“Perspectives from Exile,”contains a compilation of Lucine Kasbarian’s editorial cartoons about the Armenian Cause; an interview with Kasbarian conducted by Todd Bartel, director of the Thompson Gallery at CSW; assorted articles, and installation photos of the exhibition of her works.

Selected Articles

• The Writer and the Armenian Reality -- May 2019
• Advice to an Aspiring Armenian-American Journalist -- May 2019
• Letter to the Editor: Correction -- April 2019
• A Fond Look at the Grassroots of Armenia -- March 2019
• Exiled Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hayko Bağdat Speaks to U.S. Armenian Communities -- February 2019
• Letter to the Editor: Aurora Prize Winner Should Have Spoken About Armenian Genocide in Turkey -- June 2016
• 2015: Where have we come? Where are we going? -- April 2015
• Editorial: The Case for Self-Reconciliation -- February 20, 2015
• Editorial: Appraising Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation -- December 8, 2014
• An Embassy at a Book Fair -- April 2014
• Walking a Mile in Their Shoes -- November 2013
• Did the Armenian Writers Conference Walk the Talk? -- July 2013
• Teaching Hope in Sisian, Armenia -- Spring 2013
• Step into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly -- March 2013
• NY Public Library Panel Discusses Diversity and the State of the Children's Book -- March 4, 2013
• Chookaszian Revives Artist Fetvadjian - February 2013
• In Memoriam: Armen Babamian - January 2013
• Hurricane Sandy's Austerity Lessons - November 20, 2012
• Hand-me-down Genocide, Live in Technicolor - October 5, 2012
• Letter: Misinformation at the New York Times - October 5, 2012
• A Subway Tautology - August 6, 2012
• Daughter Love - July 17, 2012
• Asking for Your Blessing/ Tser Ohrnoutyunnuh Guh Khuntrenk - April 24, 2012
• Elixir in Exile - Dec 2011
• When is a Publicist Not a Publicist? - Spring 2011
• Der Zor Diary: A Pilgrimage to the Killing Fields of the Armenian Genocide - Sept 2010
• Armenian American Pilgrims Pay Homage in Lebanon, Syria and Der Zor - August 2010
• Is 'Reconciliation' Compatible with Justice? - May 2010
• The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides: An Inconvenient Truth - March 2010
• Jep Jermag Yeghav Sep Sev - October 2009
• The Servant Who Knows His Master - July 2009
• Pari (Ch)desank, Yovanovitch -- June 2009
• Armenia: Yesterday, Today and Maybe No Tomorrow - May 2009
• Top 20 Tall Turkish Tales - April 2009
• Letter to the Editor: NAASR Panel Lacked Balance - March 2009
• Recognizing Our Fate and May 28 -- May 2008
• Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide -- May/June 2007
• The Case for Conditional Forgiveness - March 2007
• Robert Fisk Discusses War, Imperialism and the Media - April 2006
• Kasbarian: Letter to the Editor - April 2005
• Oscar Buzz Lifts Ray Charles Titles -- November 2004
• Nurturing Your Literary Offspring -- Fall 2003
• In Search of Freedom: Armenian Immigration to America -- May 2000
• Anahid Hamparian First-Place Winner at NY Book Show Competition -- August 1996
• Breathing New Life into Armenian Soil -- September 1995
• Eco By Design -- October 1993
• A Cultural Archetype: Film Reviews -- September 1992
• UN Experts Find No Evidence of Chemical Weapons use by Armenia in Azerbaijan - August 1992
• Keeping the Faith in Artsakh -- June 1992
• Analogy as Crystal Ball: One Diaspora Portending the Fate of Another? -- November 1991
• The Lure of the Levant - October 1987

Selected Political Cartoons

Appearing in outlets and sites including: ActivistArt; Agos; Ankawa; Aravot; Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News; Armenian Mirror-Spectator; Armenian Weekly; Artists at War; Axis of Logic; Aypoupen, Aysor; Azad-Hye; Blacklisted News; Blogian; California Courier; Counter Currents; Cuadernos Feministas' La Liga Semenal; EVN Report; Foreign Policy Journal; GagRule; Gates Of Vienna; HETQ - Investigative Journalists of Armenia; Hye Media; Independent Australia; Keghart; Levant Report; Loussapatz; MassisPost; RAG Mamoul; SleuthJournal; Tabriz Cartoons; Toons Magazine; Toronto Hye; Unz Review; United Sketches; Veracity Voice; Veterans Today; Women's International Perspective; Yerepouni News; Zartonk Daily and elsewhere.

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• The Adventures of Eli + Gor.jpg

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• Dis-Honor Among Thieves.jpg

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  https://www.toonsmag.com/the-road/
  

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  The Price of Progress

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  Underdog Victories in History

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  Golden Horde Refrain

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  Not all Snakes are in the Grass

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  Buying their Silence?

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  Honorable Beggars

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  Passing the Buck

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  Coincidence?

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  Shared Pain

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  Threaten the Pope

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  Erdogan's Smoke-Screen

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  The Anti-Christ as Foretold

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  Kessab - Finish the Job

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  Shibboleth

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  NATO Peace-keeping

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  Vice as Virtue

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  Doomsday Scenario

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  Frozen in Time

• All That Money Can Buy

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  Blind Justice

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  As Aesop Would See It

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  Gunboat Diplomacy

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  Truth & Consequences

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  Animal Ranch

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  Plenty of Room

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  Identity Theft

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  Osmanli Cafe

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  Freedom Fighter

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  Two Faces

Interviews conducted with Lucine Kasbarian

• Artists at War - Testimonies of Creative Minds Affected by the Brutalities of Our Times: Jackie Abramian interviews Lucine Kasbarian - April 2016
• An Interview with Lucine Kasbarian by Todd Bartel -- April 2015
• Children’s Author Shares her Armenian Culture through Stories -- April 2014
• r.kv.r.y. Interview with Lucine Kasbarian -- July 2012
• Once There Was and Was Not: Lucine Kasbarian's Tale from Armenia -- December 2011
• Why Global Lit? An Interview with Lucine Kasbarian -- June 2011
• Preserving an Endangered Culture: Lucine Kasbarian and the Greedy Sparrow -- May 2011
• Greedy Sparrow Author Kasbarian Rekindles Armenia's Past -- March 2011
• Straddling Two Worlds: An Interview with Lucine Kasbarian -- May 2000

Articles that mention Lucine Kasbarian

• Kasbarian Speaks At Kirikian School Genocide Commemoration - April 2019
• Author Inspires Tenafly Armenian School - April 2019
• Belmont Library Spotlights Armenian Titles in April - April 2019
• Author Visit - April 2018
• Remembering Alice Aghavni Hamparian Kasbarian- March 2018
• Obituary: Alice Aghavni (Hamparian) Kasbarian - January 2018
• Lucine Kasbarian Reveals the Power of Political Cartoons in Changing Hearts, Minds and History - November 2017
• Diasporan Armenian Literature Entering the Second Century of Continuing Effects of the Genocide - October 2017
• Raw & Unfiltered: Eli + Gor - August 2017
• Celebrating Keghart and Independent Media - January 2017
• Harsness Abour - Bride's Soup - December 2016
• Justice and Fairness Called Cartoons - Sept 2016
• Book Review: Perspectives from Exile by Lucine Kasbarian - August 2016
• Lucine Kasbarian's Perspectives from Exile - May 2016
• Cartoons Worth a Thousand Words - Jan 2016
• Cartoons on Armenian Genocide displayed in Weston - June 2015
• Armenia, Africa Stamp Their Past on Art -- May 2015
• Interview with a Diasporan-Armenian Writer -- April 2014
• Children's Literary Magazine Features Armenians in Latest Issue -- April 2014
• Book Award for The Greedy Sparrow -- April 2013
• Lucine Kasbarian: Political Cartoons -- August 2012
• Cheerleaders for 'Hayasdan' -- July 2012
• Contemporary Armenian Women Writers Read their Works in New York -- July 2012
• Tirit, Armenian Style Egg Salad - April 2012
• Lucine Kasbarian's Swiss Chard Lentil Soup Feb. 2012
• Gar oo Chgar: Kasbarian Speaks at HMADS -- October 2011
• A Visit with Lucine Kasbarian -- April 2011
• Folk Dance Icon Hamparian Honored -- April 2011
• Eggplant Caviar a.k.a. The Poor Man's Caviar - March 2010
• Holy Martyrs Day School Holds Annual Book Fair -- December 2007
• Students from NY and Boston Gather for Symposium -- May 2007
• Cobblestone Children's Magazine Features Armenian Americans - August 2000
• Author Kasbarian Visits Metro Detroit area -- October 1998
• Review: Armenia - A Rugged Land, an Enduring People -- Summer 1998
• An Evening with Lucine Kasbarian - May 1998
• A Duty Born Out of Love - February 1998
• New Book on Armenia Debuts at Armenian Prelacy - December 1997

Activity and Study Guides

• Companion to the book, The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale - April 2011
• Companion to the magazine, The Armenian Americans - May 2000
• Handout: 5 THINGS ARMENIAN MILLENNIALS CAN INVENT THAT WILL DEFINE THEM AS OUR EMERGING LEADERS - March 2019
• Addendum to Appendix B, ARMENIA: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People - 2019

Selected Book Reviews / Interviews with Authors + Newsmakers

• On Tour, Author Anumyan Talks About Young Turk Crimes & Punishment -- April 2019
• Book Review: Three Books Not to Be Overlooked -- November 2018
• A DAVID & GOLIATH STORY IN IRAQ: An Interview with Filmmaker David Ritter -- December 2016
• Eric Bogosian's Operation Obfuscation -- June 2015
• Book Review/Author Interview: Women Exploited: Author Zanoyan Spotlights Sex Trafficking in Armenia -- August 2013
• Interview: A Cathedral on the Verge of Collapse: The Campaign to Save Mren - An Interview with Dr. Christina Maranci -- February 2013
• Book Review: Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War and Terror by Susan Galleymore -- May 2012
• Book Review: The Love Relationships by Rev. Dr. Vahan Tootikian -- April 2012
• Book Review: The Literary Ladies’ Guide: A Writer’s Guide to the Writing Life by Nava Atlas -- Nov. 2011
• Book Review/ Author Interview: John Balian's 'Novel Approach' Brings Armenian Saga to the Masses -- Sept 2011
• Book Review: "Fifty American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism" by Mickey Z. -- Feb 2009
• Book Review: "Endgame" by Derrick Jensen -- January 2007
• Interview: Live Wire, Lifeblood: Radio Journalist Tania Ketenjian Enlightens and Nourishes, One Interview at a Time -- June 2007
• Book Review: "Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know" by Shari Graydon -- Summer 2007
• Book Review: "In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You" by Shari Graydon -- Summer 2007
• Book Review: "Life in Prison" by Stanley "Tookie" Williams - Spring 2007
• Book Review: "A Little Piece of Ground" by Elizabeth Laird -- Fall 2006
• Book Review: "How We Are Smart" by W. Nikola-Lisa -- Fall 2006
• Book Review: 100 Things Guys Need to Know by Bill Zimmerman -- Summer 2006
• Book Review: "Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food" by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson -- Summer 2006
• Book Review: "A People's History of the United States" Edited by Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove -- 2004
• Interview: "Radio Activism: An Interview with Activist-Journalist David Barsamian" -- 2002
• Interview: Thirty Years of Olympian Service: An Interview with Tom Vartabedian -- 1999
• Interview: "Public Prosecutor with a Pen: Peter Balakian Uncovers His Armenian Past" -- 1997
• Profile: Dali's Disciple: Persistence of Childhood Memories and Metaphysical Visions is the Stuff of Onik Sahakian's Surrealism -- July 1992

External links

• lucinekasbarian.com (Personal website)
• Artivism Exhibition sponsored by the All-Armenian Students' Association of California (2017)
• Lucine Kasbarian---Perspectives from Exile: Political Cartoons about the Armenian Cause and Genocide of 1915-1923 (2015)
• Perspectives from Exile: an exhibit of political cartoons as part of the Kiss the Ground/Armenian Genocide Centennial exhibition series (2015)
• Centennial Armenian Genocide Exhibit, Providence, R.I. (2015)
• Sunny Dragon International Graphic Illustration Festival of Armenia; Theme: The Armenian Genocide (2015)
• Whistler House Museum of Art Group Exhibition, "Pursuing Justice Through Art" (2015)
• The Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale (Marshall Cavendish/Two Lions, 2011)
• University of Rhode Island Group Art Exhibition, "The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later" (2010)
• The Armenians, Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide, Hrant Dink (IndyKids, May/June 2007)
• Cobblestone Magazine's special edition about the Armenians (Cobblestone/Carus Publishing, 2000)
• Armenia: A Rugged Land, an Enduring People (Dillon Press/Simon & Schuster, 1998)

Open Letters

• Open Letter to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan - Summer 2018

• Open Letter to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan - January 9, 2019