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October 23, 2018

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Culture

Aregak Bakery: Making Pastries and Changing Perspectives

Several weeks ago, I sat waiting for a cappuccino inside Gyumri’s new Aregak Bakery. A particularly earnest young barista was working the espresso machine, taking direction from his more experienced counterpart. After frothing and pouring [...]
Reviews

A Barefoot Bedtime: Meet the Author of Pobig Dodig

Alik Arzoumanian’s story begins in Lebanon, where she grew up making books for her siblings using simple markers. “We didn’t have many Armenian books back then,” she recalled in her vibrant kindergarten classroom one afternoon. [...]
Art

A Conversation with Armenian Weekly Cartoonist and Illustrator, Bill Terian

William “Bill” Terian has been an artist for most of his life. He has served as an illustrator for local newspapers and even the IRS. So, when The Armenian Weekly put out a call for [...]
Music

Bedouine: On Music, Recording, War, and Armenia

Azniv Korkejian’s stage name, Bedouine, is an allusion to her itinerant lifestyle. Born in Syria, she spent most of the first decade of her life in Saudi Arabia, before coming to the US, where her [...]
Investigations

Clinging to Identity

In a classroom decorated with ancient and modern maps and photos of students in front of statues and monuments, restless high school juniors dressed in navy and plaid uniforms are seated at their desks trying [...]