Jennifer Manoukian
The following story was written by Siran Seza in April 1946. Seza
was the penname of Siranoush Zarifian, a Lebanese-Armenian writer born
in Constantinople in 1903. She is best known for founding the
Beirut-based feminist journal The Young Armenian Woman (Երիտասարդ Հայուհի) in 1932.
After attending Armenian, French and American schools as a child,
Seza graduated from the American College for Girls in Constantinople in
1919. Her grasp of English allowed her to continue her education in the
United States. She moved to New York in the late 1920’s to pursue a
master’s degree in literature and journalism at Columbia University.
After graduating in 1931, she settled in Beirut where she established
herself as a leader in the Lebanese-Armenian intellectual community
until her death in 1973.
