Month: October 2017

Update: Three-Year-Old Child Held Hostage at Armavir Kindergarten Freed by Police

ARMAVIR, Armenia (A.W.)—Armenian police have freed a three-year-old boy taken hostage by an unknown assailant armed with a knife at…

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Ten Years in the Making, Osteoporosis Center of Armenia Opens

Special to the Armenian Weekly YEREVAN (A.W.)—Surrounded by friends, collaborators, and supporters, Dr. John P. Bilezikian and Varta Babalyan cut…

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Reflections on Armenian Language Learning’s Impact on the Armenian-American Experience

  Special to the Armenian Weekly  I don’t know whether it was a fluke or by design, but the Armenian…

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‘Lucy’s Birthday’: A New Picture Book by an Armenian Mother and Son

LEVERETT, Mass.—Looking for subject matter for a children’s book, artist and educator Stephen Saxenian found inspiration close to home in…

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More than 50 Diasporan Artists, Scholars Call on Armenia to Adopt Domestic-Violence Law

NEW YORK—A group of Diaspora Armenian artists, scholars, and writers recently issued a statement calling on the Armenian authorities to…

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Atomic Armenia, Gassy Glendale

  Interestingly, two places with heavy Armenian populations, Yerevan and Glendale, are the loci and foci of rising power-generation debates.…

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‘20/20: Mine Free Karabagh’ Exhibition Opens in Glendale

LOS ANGELES—“20/20: Mine Free Karabagh,” an exhibition curated pro-bono by Ara Oshagan, is now open at the newly reopened Tufenkian…

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Istanbul Court Conditionally Releases Human Rights Defenders; Amnesty’s Turkey Chair Still Detained

ISTANBUL—An Istanbul court decided on Wednesday to conditionally release 10 human rights defenders while their trial continues. A court in…

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Armenia Tree Project’s Award-Winning Education Program Highlights Climate Change in Youth Newsletter

WOBURN, Mass.—Climate change is one of the most far-reaching threats facing humanity today. It is already having costly global effects—including…

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ANCA Welcomes Federal Policy Shift toward Direct USAID Assistance to Persecuted Christians and At-Risk Minorities

WASHINGTON—The United States will open a new channel of direct U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) assistance, administered by faith-based…

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