Month: December 2018

Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian Visits Watertown, Celebrates Divine Liturgy

Concluding a momentous visit to the Greater Boston area, Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Stephen’s Armenian…

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Armenia and America: Faith, Freedom, and Friendship

Armenia’s free and fair parliamentary election this December represents a landmark victory for democracy, setting the stage, in 2019, for…

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US Screwing Kurds Again

On Wednesday, December 20, 2018 President Donald Trump issued an order as commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces to withdraw…

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Bizarre Turkish News for Your Amusement this Holiday Season

Throughout this past year, I have collected several examples of eccentric reports or rules imposed on Turkish society. Naturally, millions…

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Newly Elected Archbishop Visits Watertown Armenian Schools

This was no ordinary Friday at St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary and Nursery School. It was the last day of school…

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New Novel, ‘Letters to Barbra,’ from Journalist Paul Chaderjian

Meshag Publishing has just released Diasporan journalist Paul Chaderjian’s new novel entitled Letters to Barbra. Letters to Barbra explores the…

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Armenia! at the Met: Fabulous, Albeit Complete Failure

This article appeared in the blog Armeniaca on December 1, 2018. A distinguished art historian and well-known specialist of Byzantium,…

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The Economist Ranks Armenia ‘Country of the Year’

A few days ago, a bunch of journalists at the Economist got together and decided, like kindergarten teachers doling out…

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Part I: Pashinyan’s Armenia, Democracy In-Action

Following the landslide victory of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s ‘My Step’ Alliance in the first election since the resignation…

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Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Surnames Shares His Detective Work

Have you wondered why some Armenians have cumbersome surnames such as Soghanyemezian, Chookaszian, Beshigtashlian, Srmakeshkhanlian, Deoshoghlanian and Jingabedoghlu? And if…

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