Roughly two months ago, the government of the Republic of Armenia enacted a flat tax whose regressive effects will hurt those least able to afford it. This betrayal largely hit the same people who supported […]
Our country’s love affair with guns is morally depraved and literally killing our fellow citizens. Americans have the right to live in peace and feel unafraid in public. Students have a right to study in […]
My first memories of my maternal grandfather—the renowned Kütahya ceramicist David Ohannessian, who founded the art of Jerusalem Armenian ceramics in 1919—were tied to the few pieces of brilliantly glazed pottery that occupied an honored […]
Seventy-five years ago, in Normandy, France, so many American soldiers fought in hell for a heavenly cause, and so many were killed thousands of miles away from home. The Normandy American Cemetery, which overlooks Omaha […]
By Varant Anmahouni ANCA Leo Sarkisian – Class of 2019 Georgetown University Law School – Class of 2022 I came to DC in search of a lesson on the organizational aspect of advocacy. Like any […]
Armenia, the land of Instagram celebrities Kim Kardashian and Dan Bilzerian, has embraced its latest social media sensation: the Rock (no, not Dwayne Johnson), but an actual piece of broken cobblestone. This chunk of rubble, […]
As Armenian parents or prospective parents in the diaspora, we worry about our future. Will our children enjoy the same sense of community and identity with our heritage that we have inherited? How do we […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Ask participants in the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Leo Sarkisian Internship and Maral Melkonian Avetisyan Fellowship about their favorite part of their two-month journey through the nation’s capital, and you’ll […]
Tigran Tsitoghdzyan is a master of holding a mirror to the human condition. He does this by painting hyper-realistic, often monumental canvases that are in your face, yet seem a million miles away. With their […]
By Sahak Zakarian, Internship Director, Chicago “Ararat” Chapter Alumnus A two hour drive south of Stepanakert off the beaten path sits a village at the end of the world—the end of the Armenian world, as […]
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