The following eulogy was delivered by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian at Dr. Henry D. Astarjian’s funeral services held at St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church on April 11, 2024. When I conjure Dr. Astarjian, it always seems […]
Special Issue: Genocide Education for the 21st Century The Armenian Weekly, April 2023 “I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is […]
Targeted for genocide and dispossession, reduced to exiles and deportees and fighting for survival and freedom, Armenians were facing the nation’s darkest moments from 1915 to 1919. Yet New Year and Christmas came, as it […]
While it has become widely accepted in recent years that the World War I destruction of the Armenians influenced Raphael Lemkin’s work, the efforts of Armenians in support of Lemkin’s campaign to secure the adoption […]
From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia If you had told Aram Manoukian on March 6, 1908, that within a decade he would successfully lead the […]
A few weeks ago, I visited Misak Medzarents’ (1886-1908) village, Pingean, near the city of Agn (current name: Kemaliye) in Turkey. As I walked in the narrow, cobblestone streets and alleyways of the village where […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly As the two of us hiked up the mountain to Arakelots Monastery in Mush under the scorching midday sun, we noticed a few tortoises along the way, but paid little […]
From the Armenian Weekly 2016 Magazine Dedicated to the 101st Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide China as Refuge for Armenian Genocide Survivors [1] In a letter to his brother Krikor,[2] who had arrived in Boston in […]
Paintings of Mount Ararat hang in the homes of many Armenians, and photographing (or posing with) the mountain is ever popular with visitors of the homeland. I have often reflected on its never-eroding magnetism for […]
The city of Aleppo constituted a major hub for deportation routes during the Armenian Genocide. Convoys that survived the treacherous journey began to reach the area in May 1915. In a report dated June 5, […]
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