A popular collection of facts on Armenian history and culture was recently announced the 2017 winner of the non-fiction category of the UK-based International Rubery Book Award, the oldest award for self-published and independent books […]
Translated by Attila Tuygan and Rehan Nişanyan Special to the Armenian Weekly For the past five months, Mahmut Konuk has been staging sit-ins in front of the Çankaya Community Health Center in Ankara, as well […]
By Alik Ourfalian What would you do if you were bleeding out on a crowded street, but nobody paid attention to your cry for help? If hundreds of people were walking right by you, but […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly The recent Parliamentary Elections in Armenia were meant to signal a fresh start, but that fresh start is being held hostage by a president who refuses to clarify his next […]
YEREVAN (A.W.)—United States Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills said on July 28 that Armenia’s military and political alliance with Russia does not prevent it from building closer security ties with the U.S. “No, there is […]
By Gilda Buchakjian (Kupelian) PARAMUS, N.J.—On the occasion of the upcoming centennial of the Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA), a splendid program organized by the development committee of Haigazian University (HU) of Beirut was a fitting occasion […]
PHILADELPHIA—From Horror to Hope, a collection of stories of Armenian Genocide survivors, was named a finalist by the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the memoir category (overcoming adversity/tragedy/challenges). It contains some 66 stories, […]
PARAMUS, N.J.—“The AMAA (Armenian Missionary Association of America) has been in my blood from an early age,” stated Dr. Raffy Hovanessian in a telephone conversation with this writer. The eminent community activist will be the […]
ATHENS, Greece—On July 27, the government of Greece granted a six-month temporary residency permit to Turkish-Armenian fugitive Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a Turkish prison on July 14, after serving over three years of a […]
OTTAWA—The Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC), in collaboration with the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) of Canada, recently launched an online action alert, calling on the Canadian government to immediately halt the export of Canadian manufactured weapons […]
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