Long Shadows—The Great War, Australia and the Middle East: From the Armenian to the Yazidi Genocide

Abstract

This essay is based on the exhibition ‘Long Shadows—The Great War, Australia and the Middle East’, displayed at the University Gallery of the University of Newcastle (Australia) from 5 September to 11 November 2018.496 The essay synthesises the exhibition’s main content and focus, and adds reflection. ‘Long Shadows’ made a connection between Australia’s military operation on the Gallipoli peninsula and what would come to be known as the Armenian Genocide, and presented detailed information on the persecution of the