Zabel yesayan biography
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Zabel yesayan biography
Zabel Yesayan was the only woman on the list of those to be arrested on the night of April 24th, 1915.
Progressive thinking and activities in the Ottoman Empire were often led by minorities – those who, at the end of the day, would have the greatest expectation of benefit from progress in government and society.
Zabel Yesayan embodied the hope and the tireless effort that signified the dedicated Armenian, the dedicated woman, and, indeed, the dedicated inhabitant of the Ottoman Empire.
She was born Zabel Hovhannisian on the Asian side of Constantinople in 1878.
Pioneering for her times, she not only received an education, but received it abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she met and married Dikran Yesayan. The family was destined to live apart for a long time, as father and daughter, Sophie, remained in France while Zabel Yesayan took along her son Hrant when she returned to Constantinople following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908.
Yesayan made a name for herself as an au