Special to the Armenian Weekly Christmas time for an Armenian family tends to be one of the biggest events of the year, with non-stop cooking and eating, your 100-plus “family” members visiting and pinching your […]
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—During the six years it took to create her new cookbook, titled Armenian Vegan, Dikranouhi Kirazian insisted on telling no one about her project. “I wanted it to be a surprise,” she said. […]
New Year’s resolutions have always been a lesson in futility for me. Like the time I tried to give up my pipe. I lasted about two weeks before I went back to my tobacco. It […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Ever since the 1994 ceasefire brought a semblance of peace to Artsakh, its people have made great strides in democratic self-governance and in rebuilding and improving the economic and social […]
They finally locked him up. It was only a matter of time, really. And frankly, I’m surprised it took them this long. The Turkish-Armenian journalist and entrepreneur Sevan Nisanyan could not accept his place in […]
LONDON—Beginning in January 2014, a series of productions—including “Armania: A journey through Armenian folksong, dance and poetry”—will mark the inaugural season at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Founded by the American actor and director, Sam Wanamake, […]
The Armenian Relief Society (ARS) of Eastern USA’s efforts over the past two years have been focused on Syria, where families are faced with political uncertainty amid social and financial instability, including the immediate need […]
The past year has been rife with intriguing developments on our Turkish (non-Azeri) front. So I thought it would probably be good to put those often-positive-seeming events in some context. Some 1,000 years ago, Turks […]
HAVERHILL, Mass.—The last memory I have of Sara Jaffarian was tapping on the window of her home, hoping to gain her attention. She didn’t answer. Odd, considering the whereabouts of a 98-year-old woman living independently […]
LONDON—The London Book Fair will be held from April 8-10, 2014, and will again include the Armenian Pavilion stand, organized with the support of the Armenian Embassy in London and the Armenian Community Council of […]
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