Month: February 2018

ANCA Backs Targeted $70 Million ‘Peace and Prosperity’ Aid Package for Artsakh and Armenia

WASHINGTON—In testimony submitted today to the Senate panel drafting the Fiscal Year 2019 foreign aid bill, the Armenian National Committee…

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Prominent Scholars at European Parliament Debate: ‘Artsakh Must Be the Primary Subject, Not the Object of Peace Process’

BRUSSELS—European Parliament deputies Michèle Rivasi (Verts/A LE) and Lars Adaktusson (EPP) hosted a public debate featuring prominent international scholars and…

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Newton Free Library Welcomes Readers to Check out New Armenian Collection

NEWTON, Mass. (A.W.)—Looking for Armenian language books? The Newton Free Library has recently added a collection of titles by prominent…

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From Cafés in Yerevan to Congressional Seats in Illinois

Inside a modestly-sized café on Amiryan Street in downtown Yerevan, Westerners tinker away on tiny laptops. Workers from a local…

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Sassounian: President Erdogan, a Menace to the World, Should Be Stopped Before It’s Too Late

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become a serious danger not only to his own nation, but to many others…

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Postponed: Siobhan Nash-Marshall to Examine Turkish Denialism in Belmont, Mass.

Note: The following event, which was scheduled to take place on March 22, has been postponed due to an impending…

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Stopping Gender-Based Violence: AIWA Decries Recent Violence at Yerevan City Council

WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) recently published a statement decrying the recent physical assaults upon two female members…

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ANCA Engages U.S. Treasury Secretary on U.S.-Armenia Tax Treaty

LOS ANGELES—United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, during a World Affairs Council event in Los Angeles this past Monday, had…

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‘The Pain is Still Just as Sharp’: Remembering Sumgait 30 Years Later

Special to the Armenian Weekly Feb. 27 marks the 30th anniversary of the Sumgait pogrom—the targeted attacks on the Armenian…

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Lebanon’s Minister of Tourism Avedis Guidanian to Visit Detroit, Boston, New Jersey

The Lebanese-Armenian Election Committee (Eastern United States) issued a statement this week, urging members of the Armenian community of the…

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