Thomas de Waal: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

"Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide" Thomas de Waal is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. He is a writer and analyst on the Caucasus, Russia and the Black Sea region and the author, most recently, of Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide (2015). He is also the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction (2010) and of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (2003, 2013), the authoritative book on the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, which has been translated into Armenian, Azeri, Russian and Turkish. In the 1990s de Waal worked as a newspaper journalist in Moscow, specializing in Russian politics and events in Chechnya. With Carlotta Gall, he wrote Chechnya, A Small Victorious War, (1997). De Waal has also worked as a radio journalist for the BBC and for the NGOs, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and Conciliation Resources. He studied Russia and Modern Greek at Oxford University.