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[ January 17, 2019 ] People’s Prelate Honored at New York Gala Community News
[ January 17, 2019 ] Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act Signed Into Law ANCA News
[ January 17, 2019 ] Sanctions Relief Removes Obstacle to U.S.-Armenia Aluminum Trade News
[ January 17, 2019 ] ARF to Convene 33rd World Congress in Artsakh Community News
[ January 17, 2019 ] Book Release: ‘Bloodied, but Unbowed’ Literary Corner

Literary Corner

Book Release: ‘Bloodied, but Unbowed’

In this memoir, author Alice Nazarian tells the story of her parents and family in the shadow of the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide. Her father, Ashur Yousuf, a prominent Assyrian intellectual and professor at Euphrates College in [...]
Food

Worcester Natives Create Booze-Infused Popsicles

WORCESTER, Mass.—Nassim Aoude and Michael Melkonian are the young founders of PunchPops, a new Worcester-based company breaking into the American alcohol industry with a 21-plus twist on a summertime favorite. The idea for marketing wine-infused [...]
Memoir

An Armenian in Minnesota

Many Armenians of the diaspora ended up in California. Another group settled on the east coast. My destiny was in Minnesota. In 2009 at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, I won an academic exchange fellowship to study [...]
Memoir

Excerpt from the New Memoir, ‘Liminal,’ by a Baku Pogrom Survivor

Idaho-based Armenian-American activist and entrepreneur Liyah Babayan, a native of Baku, has released her first book, Liminal: a refugee memoir. Based around journal entries written by her at a young age and documenting her family’s [...]
Community News

First Ever English Translation of Tzarukian’s ‘Letter to Yerevan’ Published by Hairenik Press

WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Hairenik Press has announced the first ever publication of the English translation of Andranik Tzarukian’s long-form poem Letter to Yerevan («Թուղթ առ Երեւան» “Tught ar Yerevan”). The translation was a collaborative effort between [...]

Haiti’s Colonial Wounds Cannot Heal

January 16, 2019 at 2:22 pm 6

Last December marked the 30th anniversary of the terrible Spitak Earthquake, which shook Armenia and killed anywhere between 25,000 and 50,000 Armenian nationals and left thousands orphaned. Twenty-one years after this tragedy, natural disaster befell [...]
Turkey Ranks Among Top 10 Countries With Probability of Committing Genocide

January 15, 2019 at 10:58 am 2
Bad News Beginning

January 14, 2019 at 12:08 pm 0
Shutdown Shenanigans

January 14, 2019 at 10:58 am 10
South African-Armenian Solidarity

January 9, 2019 at 3:58 pm 6

Community

AYF-Eastern Region Hosts 85th Annual Convention

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—More than two dozen delegates representing 13 of the region’s chapters from the Armenian Youth Federation —Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (AYF-YOARF) Eastern Region USA recently gathered in the mid-west for [...]

Interviews

Artsakh Continues to be a Beacon of Hope

On May 21, 2018, I embarked on the Armenian Heritage Tour for an unforgettable and fulfilling two-week journey to Armenia and Artsakh. It was a deeply emotional trip, including the celebration of Independence Day on [...]

Armenia’s New Parliament Gets to Work

Deadly Brawl in Kazakhstan Sparks Anti-Armenian Unrest

Is Armenia Playing a Dangerous Game with China?

Murder Near Russian Military Base Tests Yerevan-Moscow Bond

Pashinyan Wins Big in Parliamentary Elections

Caucasus

Sanctions Relief Removes Obstacle to U.S.-Armenia Aluminum Trade

Diaspora

People’s Prelate Honored at New York Gala

Job Opportunity: AYF Seeking 2019 AYF Internship Director

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Book Release: ‘Bloodied, but Unbowed’

Worcester Natives Create Booze-Infused Popsicles

An Armenian in Minnesota

Excerpt from the New Memoir, ‘Liminal,’ by a Baku Pogrom Survivor

First Ever English Translation of Tzarukian’s ‘Letter to Yerevan’ Published by Hairenik Press

Voices

Haiti’s Colonial Wounds Cannot Heal

Opinion

A New Dawn for the ARF

Special Reports

Meet the Family Making Yogurt with a Healthy Serving of Armenian Culture

AYF-Eastern Region Hosts 85th Annual Convention

Camp Haiastan’s Director’s Quarters, Summer Office Ready For Summer 2019

What It’s Like To Be An AYF Intern In Armenia

AYF Hand-Delivers Letter to Turkish Consul General, Organizes Silent Protest

Meet Garo Bazarbachian of BAZ Clothing

Artsakh Continues to be a Beacon of Hope

Collective Dilijan: The Gap Year You Wish You Had

A Conversation with Armenian Weekly Cartoonist and Illustrator, Bill Terian

Tuning in to The Deenjes

Vahram Zaryan and the Artistry of Contemporary Mime

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