Students Call for U.S. Condemnation of Attacks WASHINGTON—Armenian-American youth—their mouths symbolically covered with red tape—held a silent protest on Jan. 31, calling on Congress to reject Turkey’s gag-rule on U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, […]
WASHINGTON—On Wed., Feb. 6, Armenian-American public policy professionals and friends of Armenia will join with representatives of the U.S. Department of State and the Armenian Embassy at an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) roundtable […]
LILLEHAMMER, Norway—The year was 1994. Armenia had been struggling as an independent republic for three years and needed a lift. The country was still in recovery from a devastating earthquake in 1988 that took 25,000 […]
In her new book Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity (I.B. Tauris, 2011), Maria Koundoura, associate professor of literature at Emerson College, breaks new ground in her comparative analysis of Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate, Orhan […]
Armin Hariri, or “R-Mean,” has been improvising rhymes since his days as a young schoolboy in Amsterdam. Today, he is “spitting” lyrics with top names in the rap industry, such as Grammy-nominated artists Joe Budden […]
You probably remember a comedy movie that came out a few years ago titled “The Cable Guy.” Today’s story is a travesty about real-life cable guys, known as Charter Communications. No doubt you’ve already heard […]
I happen to be a born collector. Over the course of my lifetime, I’ve collected everything from stamps and coins to swizzle sticks, baseball cards, comic books, records, cameras, even junk. You know what they […]
The insouciant vibe in Armenia just a week after the official start of the presidential campaign is a stark contrast to the energy surrounding the 2008 election. The excitement displayed then by frequent rallies and […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly. Historian Taner Akçam recently told me, “Living in Turkey as an Armenian is an art–the art of survival.” He was right. And within a couple of days, I was in Samatya […]
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