Month: September 2019

Frances Willard: Armenia’s Angel on Capitol Hill

Inside the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., each state is represented by a statue of…

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Armenia’s NSS Director Sacked, Police Chief Promoted

YEREVAN—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stunned observers this week with a pair of major administrative shakeups: the dismissal of Armenia’s…

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch Consults with ANCA Idaho

WASHINGTON, DC – The Chairwoman of Idaho’s chapter of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Liyah Babayan joined with…

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ANCA Rolls Out Interactive Congressional Hex Maps

WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has launched two prototypes of interactive Congressional hex maps designed…

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Women in Artsakh Politics

The low participation of women in politics is a global issue. Irrespective of political structures and democracy indexes, almost every…

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The Mystic and the Priest: The Gurdjieff Ensemble Performs Komitas

At first blush, it may seem like an odd pairing: Gurdjieff and Komitas. The father of modern Armenian music, Komitas…

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The Making of ‘Under the Light of the Moon’

As a young Armenian American attending a public school in Cranston, Rhode Island, it always frustrated me that the Armenian…

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My Journey to Ararat

Throughout my childhood, I’ve learned, read and seen many images of our holy mountain, Mt. Ararat. The image of her…

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ANCA Presses U.S. State Department on Durable, Democratic Peace between Artsakh and Azerbaijan

WASHINGTON, DC – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) recently held talks with senior State Department officials regarding sustainable…

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Armin Wegner Asked Franz Werfel Not to Write his ‘40 Days of Musa Dagh’—Part III

This is the continuation of the letter written by Armin T. Wegner to Franz Werfel in 1932 which is being…

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