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Fa'iz Ghusayn
1883–1968
Best known for a rare eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide, this Syrian writer and former Ottoman official left behind a work valued for its immediacy and moral clarity. His life bridged tribal leadership, public service, and political upheaval in the late Ottoman world.
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Martyred Armenia
by Fa'iz Ghusayn
About the author
Born in 1883, Fa'iz Ghusayn was a Syrian Arab sheikh from the Hauran region. Sources describe him as the son of a Bedouin tribal leader, and he also served as an Ottoman official and trained as a lawyer.
He is most widely remembered for Martyred Armenia, a firsthand account published during World War I. The book drew on what he witnessed while in exile in Diyarbakir and has remained the work most closely associated with his name.
Ghusayn died in 1968. Although not a widely known literary figure today, his writing continues to matter because it offers a direct contemporary testimony from someone who had been inside the Ottoman system and then wrote about the suffering he saw.