You may want to know that ‘Meds Yeghern’ does not mean genocide; it means “Great Calamity.” Armenians used that term before the word ‘genocide’ was coined by Raphael Lemkin in the 1940’s. –Harut Sassounian1 […]
ALEPPO, Syria—Filmmaker Avo Kaprealian, who was detained by Syrian authorities, has been released, according to the Facebook page set up by his friends. Kaprealian was last seen with two of his colleagues with a camera […]
JACKSON HEIGHTS, N.Y.—Anahid Ugurlayan is not your typical marathoner. The more she runs, the better it gets for American and Armenian charities both here and abroad. Of the eight marathons she has entered and completed, […]
On a cold and brisk Columbus Day Weekend in Franklin, Mass., the warmth and camaraderie amongst the ungers helped make it another successful Panagoum for the Providence ARF Gomideh. Alternating between a regional ARF and […]
NEW YORK (A.W.)—Four prominent Armenian artists who have made their mark on film and literature in North America will converge in New York on Sun., Dec. 9, to take part in a panel discussion titled […]
As usual, when it rains, it pours good events in the LA area, and the preceding weekend was no exception to that rule. The best was the set of memorial gatherings for Missak Torlakian, one […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—George Elanjian, who provided the financial backbone behind the $6.2 million Armenian Heritage Park project, is basking in another moment of glory and accomplishment these days. He was named “Man of the Year” by […]
BELMONT, Mass.—On Thurs., Dec. 6, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, the McMillan-Stewart Career Development Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, will give a lecture entitled “Wishful Thinking or Insidious Camouflage? […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—A large crowd gathered at ALMA on the evening of Nov. 15 to learn about a new and exciting variation on an old title, the Houshamadyan Project, presented by project coordinator Nora Lessersohn. Co-sponsored […]
In a matter of years beginning in 1915, an entire people was wiped out from its homeland of several thousand years. But how can you wipe out the remnants—its creations, assets, traces, its very existence—from […]
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