Rupen Janbazian

Rupen Janbazian is the editor of Torontohye Monthly. He is the former editor of The Armenian Weekly and the former director of public relations of the Tufenkian Foundation. Born and raised in Toronto, he is currently based in Yerevan.
Obituaries

The griddle, the counter and the everlasting spirit of Aram Postaljian

When I moved to Watertown to work at the Armenian Weekly, I quickly mapped out my breakfast loyalties. I was…

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Reviews

Book Review: ‘Defeat: Documenting the Karabagh War of 2020’

The Second Karabakh (Artsakh) War of 2020 (commonly known as the 44-Day War) and the subsequent ethnic cleansing and agonizing…

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Opinion

Beyond the “King of Armenians” syndrome: A blueprint for strategic resilience

On June 25, the newly established Institute for Security Analysis (ISA), in partnership with NAASR and the Calouste Gulbenkian Series…

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Diaspora

Carving pathways to justice

It began with a simple instinct: document what is at risk of disappearing. When Anoush Baghdassarian and Ani Schug co-founded…

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Opinion

Preserving and propelling Richard G. Hovannisian’s legacy

There is a particular weight to a lifetime of gathered pages.  I write this sitting at a large table inside…

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Reflections

Providing the soil for a new voice

The weight of the word in a teenager’s mouth is a heavy thing … especially when that word is Armenian. …

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Reflections

Five years without Vartan Gregorian: The road to home and the bridge to the future

I remember receiving the news of Vartan Gregorian’s passing on a spring afternoon in 2021.  Immediately, the world felt a…

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Commentary

What stand-up in Yerevan says about Armenia — and us

There is a specific kind of loneliness in being the only person in a crowded room who doesn’t get the…

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Literary Corner

Audiobooks make running easier — until our names get mispronounced

One of the few genuinely good things to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, at least for me personally, was…

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Op-Eds

A $15 million bet on the future

A few years ago, I walked through the hollowed-out, silent grounds of the Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus. It…

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