Month: May 2020

Dan Yessian’s Award-Winning Documentary “An Armenian Trilogy” Now Streaming

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – An Armenian Trilogy, a new documentary about Dan Yessian’s  journey from advertising music creator to writing…

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Reclaiming Nationalism, Rejecting Chauvinism, Building Socialism

On May 28th, Independence Day (the OG one, of course, not the September 21 re-independence of 1991), I finished Houri…

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AYF Leader Kenar Charchaflian Named Camp Haiastan Director

FRANKLIN, Mass.—The AYF Camp Haiastan Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Kenar Charchaflian as its new Executive Director.…

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First Impressions Part IV

Orphanages and centers for the arts abound in Armenia. Passing down the traditions of the Armenian people and learning them…

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Our Institutional Environment: Transparency and Credibility

We experience our Armenian identity in the diaspora through a variety of mechanisms. For some who are isolated from organized…

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An Ode to May 28

Armenia! Armenia outraged! Armenia broken! Armenia martyred! But Armenia liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help…

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Lifting Our Communities: ARS Eastern Region Responds to Pandemic

The Armenian Relief Society Eastern Region (ARS of Eastern USA) has always been at the forefront of relief efforts and…

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Headlining the 1918 First Republic of Armenia

This year the Armenian Weekly is hosting, along with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern Region Central Committee, the first…

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Dandeegeen Diaries—Chapter 9: Bulghur Pilaf

We are fast approaching summer. Memorial Day has come and gone and that means kebob season is upon us. Though…

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When you’re the Guest of Honour: Atom Egoyan’s winsome culinary tragicomedy

Watching twenty-something Veronica (Laysla de Oliveira) conduct her high school orchestra, you’d be forgiven if you mistook her for being…

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