WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)–The March 6 and March 13 issues of the Armenian Weekly feature a series of articles dedicated to women’s issues.
Published on the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8, these articles are “a testament to the Weekly’s continued insistence on shedding light on women’s issues,” according to Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian.
“Over the past several years, we have not waited for special occasions like IWD to shed light on these issues. Violence against women, issues of equality, and women’s rights have been at the center of our attention. This publication is simply a continuation of this recently established ‘tradition,'” he added.
The Weekly plans to publish a special insert every year on IWD.
Click on the titles below to view the articles:
The Armenian Woman: From Progressive Emancipation to Conservatism
By Maria Titizian
What do we know about women’s experiences?
By Talin Suciyan
Nationalism and Sex
By Lara Aharonian
Celebrating the Armenian Woman
By Kristi Rendahl
Accepting New Challenges
By Lalai Manjikian
Armenian Dance: The Drive of Armenianness
By Anahid Babayan
An Unpaid Debt
By Henry Dumanian
Strength from Women
By Jirair Ratevosian
Also from the Weekly:
To Hell with the Roses
By Khatchig Mouradian
Never-Ending Rape
By Henry Theriault
I want to congratulate the Weekly and Khatchig Mouradian for this wonderful special. This is indeed one of the few places in the entire Armenian press (in every language) where controversial issues are presented, discussed, and given room to develop. And perhaps one of our greatest issue is women’s rights.
I just finished reading all the articles. Bravo Weekly!
Men, they love their mothers,
Who soulfully spoil them.
When they get married,
Wish their wives to do the same.
When mothers soul
Doesn’t exist in every name
They distress their lovers
This might exist in every community:
Ethnicity, religion, race.
Just a reminder that Turkey, Russia and Iran are the worst countries for human rights abuses. That until the day Turkey, Russia and Iran improve the status of all people, including women, they will not be well received by the western world where such rights have been hard fought for and have existed for some time.
Just read any report on these countries written by a human watch organization.
On the lighter side: When I first visited Israel in 1961, someone asked a bedouin how many camels I was worth. He said four. I don’t know if that is a good number or not. What is hard for us to comprehend is that the bedouins think of their women as equal to camels, not as equals to men. The difference in our cultures is big. Equality for women and minorities is a foreign concept. Human rights has a long way to go in most of the world.