Month: December 2014

Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Dec. 20, 2014)

True Religion Tennyson had the British Empire for God, and Queen Victoria for Virgin Mary. … Lady Gregory   A Modern Aphorism…

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‘Seeing Hands’: Providing Massages to Weary Diasporans, and Work for the Blind

Special for the Armenian Weekly At some point during my time in Armenia, I must have accepted that having constant…

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Society for Armenian Studies DC Conference on ‘Armenians in the Ottoman Empire’ (Part I)

By Aram Arkun Special for the Society of Armenian Studies The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS), a primarily American association…

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Akcam to Present Talk on League of Nations’ Aleppo Rescue House

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Tues., Jan. 13, 2015, Dr. Taner Akcam will present an illustrated talk entitled, “Giving Voice to the Voiceless:…

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Sassounian: Azeri-Israeli Propagandist Throws Stones from Glass House

The JNS.org website (Jewish and Israel news) posted a venomous, anti-Armenian article by Arye Gut with the bombastic headline, “Anti-Semitism in Armenia:…

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Edgar M. Housepian (1928-2014)

Dr. Edgar M. Housepian, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Neurological Surgery at Columbia University and co-founder of the Fund for Armenian…

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Turkey’s Shame: The Case of Fatma and Azad Tokmak

Special for the Armenian Weekly The following quote contains what reportedly happened to Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman from Sirnak…

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Young Biologists Dedicated to Environmental Conservation in Armenia, Artsakh

Special for the Armenian Weekly I’ve reached the halfway mark of this six-part series chronicling the work of environmental organizations…

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Project SAVE Partners with St. Stephen’s Elementary

WATERTOWN, Mass.—Principal Houry Boyamian of St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School, and Ruth Thomasian, the executive director of Project SAVE Armenian…

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Abu Lala Mahari: Fifth Surah

By Avediq Isahakian Translated by Tatul Sonentz (Note: Read the first surah here, and the fourth surah here.)   Fifth…

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