Month: July 2014

Vartabedian: Keeping in Step with Dance Recitals

I committed the ultimate social blunder the other day at my granddaughter’s dance recital. Just as she appeared on stage…

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Fatih Akin’s Film on 1915 to Premiere at Venice Film Festival

VENICE, Italy (A.W.)—Award winning director Fatih Akin’s latest film, “The Cut,” will premiere at the 71st Venice International Film Festival…

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Zaven Khanjian Appointed Executive Director of AMAA

Dr. Joseph Zeronian, president of the Board of Directors of the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA), announced the appointment…

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Ani Garmiryan Joins Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Garmiryan to Be Responsible for Promotion of Western Armenian The Armenian Communities Department recently announced the appointment of Ani Garmiryan…

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Sassounian: Now that the Lawsuits Are Settled, Let’s Build the Genocide Memorial

On July 15, a Federal Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s 2011 decision, ordering the return to the Cafesjian Family Foundation…

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Call for Papers: Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide at Clark

WORCESTER, Mass.—The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Third International Graduate Students’ Conference…

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Knights, Daughters of Vartan Feature Arsenyan at Embassy in Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Last month, the Knights and Daughters of Vartan, Washington, D.C. chapters, featured world-acclaimed pianist Hayk Arsenyan at the Embassy…

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Obituary: Albert Sarkissian (1917-2014)

Albert Sarkissian was born on Feb. 12, 1917, in an Armenian community that was then in Russian Ashkabad. Albert was the…

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Baydzar and Galya: Legacies of Defiance from Diyarbakir to Stepanakert

Special for the Armenian Weekly Two remarkable women passed away in June—one in Diyarbakir, the other in Karabagh. One symbolized…

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Anti-Armenian Attacks Target Clerics in Tbilisi

TBILISI, Georgia—Clerics at the Holy Etchmiadzin Church in Tbilisi, were attacked in what the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church…

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