Career
Sahakian served as a medical officer in the Ottoman army during the World War I, and then as resident doctor at the Armenian refugee camp in Portuguese Said, Egypt. Sahakian began collecting the stories of Armenian soldiers and refugees following the deportations and massacres of their communities. He was best known for Our Cross (Armenian: «Մեր խաչը» Mer Khachu), a collection of short stories originally printed in 1921 in Paris, subsequently published in English in Los Los Angeles
Among his other works is Patgamavor shunery («Պատգամավոր շուները» 1945).
