Only the Dead: A Levantine Tragedy

Only the Dead is part adventure story and part exploration of the moral complexities arising from war, brutality, and the desire for revenge.

As old Vartan sits reading mystical Persian poetry among the dust and disintegration of war-torn Beirut, the fluted pillars of his decaying house weathered in shadows, his thoughts wander back, inevitably, to another conflict, many years before…

Only the Dead is the story of Vartan Nakashian, a young Armenian from Aleppo caught in the midst of a world...