Month: February 2021

Advocating for Artsakh: Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte’s Mission

“Where are your refugees, who are they, what did they lose?” questioned Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte who announced the launch of…

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Greenhouse Effect

A twenty-something sits on an exam table in Midtown. Her blood pressure is perfect, as it should be; youth is…

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Kutahya’s Surp Toros Church demolished

It is common in Turkey for churches and sites of religious and cultural importance to Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Jews…

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Around the World in 10 Photographs

WATERTOWN, Mass.—The collection of rare photographs from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives in the Armenian Weekly’s January 23 issue…

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Excerpts from ‘Ghosts of the Genocide’

High on a Mountain Outside Muradiye, Turkey, 2019 We’re cruising down the highway, looking at an occasional cow attempting to…

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Songs of Solomon: “And the Oscar goes to…”

We seem to have the political will at the moment (even if only for a very brief moment) to address…

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Our Useless Diaspora, Our Future Armenia

During the Artsakh War of 2020, my group of Diasporan friends and I rushed to the homeland to volunteer. On…

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In Memory of Sandra Satenig (Russian) Aghababian

Sandra (Russian) Aghababian of Lexington, Massachusetts passed away on February 1, 2021. She was the beloved wife of Robert Aghababian…

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Opening of transport links between Armenia and Azerbaijan commences amidst another prisoner exchange

The trilateral working group created to oversee the construction of transport links connecting Armenia and Azerbaijan met for the first…

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On why things that we don’t want to happen…happen

Everyone wants to be happy, yet often people find themselves in situations that cause unhappiness. Our current national predicament is…

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