LOS ANGELES—From Nov. 10-11, the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA will host an international conference titled “Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print” in honor of Prof. […]
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.—St. Gregory Church of Merrimack Valley will combine its annual fall fair with a Halloween theme Oct. 27. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. inside Jaffarian Hall, 158 […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—On Sun., Oct. 14, the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) will open a remarkable homage exhibit to the Armenian painter and art historian Arshag Fetvadjian (1866-1947). Born in Trebizond and trained in Rome, […]
The organizers of the Los Angeles leg of the Armenians and Progressive Politics conference issued the following press release on Oct. 8. The Armenians and Progressive Politics Conference on “Armenia at 21,” proudly sponsored by […]
By Knar Bedian After two years of hosting unofficial meetings and events, on Thurs., Sept. 27 the Armenian Club of Tufts University finally received (re-)recognition from the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ). While in the […]
WASHINGTON–On Wednesday, Oct. 3, ANCA Eastern Region Executive Director Michelle Hagopian communicated the concerns and support of Eastern Region ANC chapters to legislators on Capitol Hill. She was in Washington, D.C. all week for ANCA […]
The following is an excerpt from Amid the Ruins (1911), writer Zabel Yessayan’s account of the aftermath of the 1909 massacres in Cilicia. It is translated to English by Jennifer Manoukian. Towards Cilicia The steamboat […]
Franz Werfel’s 1933 novel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, portrayed one small Armenian community’s efforts to resist deportation and massacre during the genocide. The novel was highly controversial—having been banned by Nazi Germany and […]
As fall approaches, the newspapers and magazines remind me of my civic duties and encourage me to keep on murdering the killer-snails. They tell me it is the right thing to do. It is important […]
NEW YORK (A.W.)—Armenian-American activists and community members converged at Columbia University on Sept. 28-29 to attend this year’s installment of the Armenians and Progressive Politics (APP) Cconference, dedicated to “Armenia at 21.” The conference featured […]
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