Month: January 2016

Meline’s Garden: Challenging Monoculture in the Motherland

Special for the Armenian Weekly Diasporan Armenians are known to develop obsessions about local Armenian food. The taste of the…

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Let’s Enjoy a Vibrant Drink on Me

News flash: A 70-year-old bottle of Armenian brandy was sold at Sotheby’s auction in London this November for (gulp!) 80,000…

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Sassounian: Portrait of a Turkish-American Genocide Denialist

While Armenian-Americans closely follow the sinister efforts of Turkey and its lobbying firms, they rarely pay attention to a handful…

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AYF-YOARF Eastern Region Convention 2015

By Meghri Der Vartanian When I was younger, my cousins would leave our family dinners to go to an AYF…

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Mesrobian High School Junior Appointed Montebello Youth Commissioner

MONTEBELLO, Calif.—Armenian Mesrobian High School junior Alex Manoukian was sworn in as youth commissioner for the City of Montebello by…

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Embracing Social Justice: The ARF in Armenia

  The Armenian Weekly Magazine Dec. 2015: The ARF at 125 After decades of being banned from Soviet Armenia, the…

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The Dashnaktsakan…

The Armenian Weekly Magazine Dec. 2015: The ARF at 125 Vahan Navasardian—undoubtedly one of the more prominent Armenian Revolutionary Federation…

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International Conference of ARF Youth, Student Organizations Held in Yerevan

YEREVAN—Delegates representing the ARF’s student and youth organizations from around the world met for a three-day conference in Yerevan at…

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Bohjalian Book Signing, ‘Kinetson’ Held at Hovnanian School

NEW MILFORD, N.J.—The Hovnanian School and the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society of New Jersey recently co-hosted best-selling author…

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ANC-EM Presents Inaugural ‘Michael Varantian Lecture Series’

What to Expect from Russian Foreign Policy? Four Scenarios and Implications for by Arthur Martirosyan, Senior Consultant, CMPartners WATERTOWN, Mass.—The…

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