Concluding a momentous visit to the Greater Boston area, Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church on Sunday. While His Eminence has visited Massachusetts and the Greater Boston area […]
Armenia’s free and fair parliamentary election this December represents a landmark victory for democracy, setting the stage, in 2019, for a strategic upgrade of the U.S.-Armenia partnership. The bipartisan leadership of the Congressional Armenian Caucus, […]
On Wednesday, December 20, 2018 President Donald Trump issued an order as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces to withdraw the 2000 U.S. troops in Syria, via a tweet. These forces have been fighting Daesh/ISIS […]
Throughout this past year, I have collected several examples of eccentric reports or rules imposed on Turkish society. Naturally, millions of liberal and civilized Turks are unhappy with these behind the times regulations, but as […]
This was no ordinary Friday at St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary and Nursery School. It was the last day of school before the winter break, but more importantly, Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian (Srpazan) was coming to visit […]
Meshag Publishing has just released Diasporan journalist Paul Chaderjian’s new novel entitled Letters to Barbra. Letters to Barbra explores the Armenian identity through the story of an outsider. It’s told in a disjointed, Facebook-like timeline, […]
This article appeared in the blog Armeniaca on December 1, 2018. A distinguished art historian and well-known specialist of Byzantium, Helen Evans has been working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for many years. Among […]
A few days ago, a bunch of journalists at the Economist got together and decided, like kindergarten teachers doling out their ‘best student’ award, which of the world’s countries has ‘most improved’ in the last […]
Following the landslide victory of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s ‘My Step’ Alliance in the first election since the resignation of president-turned-prime-minister Serzh Sargsyan, the populist leader faces his biggest test – transitioning from revolution […]
Have you wondered why some Armenians have cumbersome surnames such as Soghanyemezian, Chookaszian, Beshigtashlian, Srmakeshkhanlian, Deoshoghlanian and Jingabedoghlu? And if you knew the meaning of certain uncomplimentary Armenian surnames (Boujikanian—short man), Kherdian (destroyed and fled), […]
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