Special to the Armenian Weekly The first international break of the season is always an interesting time in soccer/football. Domestic campaigns already have a match or two in the books, depending on the country […]
Camp Javakhk Expands to the Village of Darakyugh AKHALKALAK, Georgia—Camp Javakhk concluded another successful year of camps in three municipalities in Javakhk (Samtskhe-Javakheti region) and one village in the Tsalka* district of the Kvemo Kartli […]
YEREVAN—The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative recently announced a new annual scholarship for Yazidi students, established in partnership with renowned Yazidi human rights activist Lamya Haji Bashar. It is the latest addition to the Gratitude Scholarship […]
LA BOURBOULE, France—The Wikimedia Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation hosted the Third International Wiki Camp for Western Armenian from Aug. 12 to 20. Forty-four participants from Armenia, Lebanon, Istanbul, France, Greece, and the United […]
WASHINGTON—George Mason University sophomore Ani Tikoyan spent her summer on Capitol Hill interning for Congresswoman Katherine Clark. An active member of the D.C. Armenian community, Tikoyan sought an internship with the congresswoman who represents Watertown, […]
STEPANAKERT, Artsakh—Artsakh Foreign Affairs Minister Karen Mirzoyan met with a Canadian parliamentary delegation headed by Rev. Majed el-Shafie, founder and president of One Free World International, and Members of Parliament the Hon. Tony Clement and […]
‘Culture Cannot Wait’ Program Brings Experts in Preserving Cultural Heritage to Brandeis WALTHAM, Mass.—The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University recently announced that it will present Immortal City, an exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed […]
STEPANAKERT, Artsakh—Gagik Petrosyan, a soldier wounded in the aftermath of the 2016 April War, celebrated a housewarming in Stepanakert, the capital of Artsakh, on Aug. 31. The house was renovated by the Tufenkian Foundation’s Housing […]
TEL AVIV (A.W.)—The Israeli Ministry of Defense has frozen some Aeronautics Defense Systems licenses, preventing the firm from exporting its military drones to Azerbaijan. The action comes after the Ministry’s investigation into whether Aeronautics was […]
Mr. Ashjian, When I read what you said during the Fresno Unified School Board meeting on Aug. 23, I was appalled. I am Armenian, and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors. I am also […]
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