Month: November 2018

Kurdish Member of Turkish Parliament Jailed after Harsh Speech

A while back, , a Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament from the Sirnak province of Turkey, delivered extremely critical…

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Elections 2018, A Follow-up

This was a very exciting U.S. election season, in its own way, even more so than the 2016 presidential cycle…

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Trump=Turkey #2?

It seems like every few years I get an irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey,…

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ARS Mayr Chapter Hosts Vision 2020 fundraiser in New York

The Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Mayr chapter in New York recently hosted a fundraiser for Vision 2020. It was an…

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In Loving Memory of Jack DerAvedisian

Jack DerAvedisian, owner of Omni Foods in Watertown, died on October 23, 2018. He was the beloved husband of Thelma…

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A Very ARS Thanksgiving

The women of the Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Leola Sassouni Chapter yet again served one of the largest traditional Thanksgiving…

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Haigazian University Armenian Diaspora Research Center Call for Papers

The Haigazian University-based Armenian Diaspora Research Center will organize its sixth annual conference on the Armenian communities of the Middle…

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Is Armenia Really Post-Ideological?

On the first of May, as Armenians gathered in the hundreds of thousands in town squares across the country, Nikol…

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Armenian Women Candidates Win in Michigan and Maryland

Mari Manoogian, who received the endorsement of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), is now the State Representative for…

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Narrating Racism

In the 1956 movie The Searchers, two white girls are abducted from their family homestead during a raid by Comanche…

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