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March 1, 2021

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“If you don’t come now, when would you come?”

YEREVAN—Shant Charshafjian has a million things on his mind, but in his heart, there is a special place for Martuni. Life in the once peaceful, rural region took a turbulent turn this past fall when [...]
Literary Corner

Tasting a Pomegranate

The berry of the fruit crushes upon my tongue, bitter, sweet, savored. And the hills cascade into waves of green, rising with the patter of my footsteps, lowered by the weight of fruits of labor [...]
Film

Our Fathers’ Stories

Author’s note: Having written this essay just before the Artsakh War, my goal was to write about these films and stories as a way to connect our past to our future in a forward thinking [...]
Poetry

Vanishing Act

Remember when we believed a Stepanakert street block was too far? Mesrop Mashtots, Vazgen Sargsyan street, and so on… well, new boundaries stack those blocks, and now there are thousands, maybe millions, blocking. My preschool [...]
Music

Garabala: “We just wanted to play Armenian music”

February marked six months since the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut, which killed over 200 people, injured and traumatized thousands and paralyzed much of the Lebanese capital. In its wake last fall, a [...]