PROVIDENCE, RI—In the once affluent part of Cranston, RI which borders on the south side of Providence is the historic Oakland Cemetery. Years ago this privately owned cemetery was the burial place of many immigrant […]
Armenian society has been at loggerheads over the Istanbul Convention — the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence — since it was signed by Armenia on January 18, 2018. In 2019, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional Armenian Caucus founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-CA) called on his Congressional colleagues to join him in commemorating the 30th anniversary of the brutal anti-Armenian attacks in Baku, which resulted in over […]
The Armenian Weekly staff conducted the following interview with Knarik Meneshian, a longtime contributor to the Weekly and the author of the recently published book A Place Called Gyumri. Knarik O. Meneshian was born in […]
Michael Hagopian was born to play basketball. “My dad put a ball in my hands when I was really young,” he fondly recalled during an interview with the Armenian Weekly late last summer. “They had […]
Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach By Aris Janigian Regent Press Printers & Publishers, 2019 200 pp. $15.95 paperback Whether it’s Bloodvine (2003)—Aris Janigian’s first novel of immigrants trying to make it in […]
The Eastern Regional Executive of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society announced the winners of the Minas and Kohar Tölölyan Prize in Contemporary Literature as Susan Arpajian Jolley and Allan Arpajian, co-authors of Out of My […]
Bluntly stated, the geostrategic position of Armenia may properly be described as being between a rock and a hard place. Two of its neighbors (Turkey and Azerbaijan) will always remain implacable enemies of Armenia and […]
I’ve actually been to Hell – well, this Hell wasn’t located in the fiery depths of the afterlife, but in the countryside on the outskirts of the baroque Polish city of Krakow. Accompanying me on […]
Many of us in America grew up with at least one picture of eternal Ararat on the wall in our family home. Somewhere in the house was a plaque or mosaic of the alphabet Mesrob […]
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