“Where are your refugees, who are they, what did they lose?” questioned Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte who announced the launch of her eponymous Foundation last week. “All of them lost something,” she explained in an interview […]
A twenty-something sits on an exam table in Midtown. Her blood pressure is perfect, as it should be; youth is wasted on the young who pay rent for foxholes, lose their virginity to the bomb, […]
It is common in Turkey for churches and sites of religious and cultural importance to Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Jews to be deeded to individuals and eventually demolished. It is often the result of a […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—The collection of rare photographs from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives in the Armenian Weekly’s January 23 issue generated much interest and discussion. The photo essay was reprinted in several newspapers and online […]
High on a Mountain Outside Muradiye, Turkey, 2019 We’re cruising down the highway, looking at an occasional cow attempting to graze on the pavement or sometimes trotting along, insisting the highway, originally a field, should […]
We seem to have the political will at the moment (even if only for a very brief moment) to address social inequities and allow justice and fairness to guide our decisions. One can fairly hope […]
During the Artsakh War of 2020, my group of Diasporan friends and I rushed to the homeland to volunteer. On October 18, 2020, we visited Shushi and lit a candle in the shelled Ghazanchetsots cathedral. […]
Sandra (Russian) Aghababian of Lexington, Massachusetts passed away on February 1, 2021. She was the beloved wife of Robert Aghababian and a devoted mother to Pamela Aghababian, Scott Aghababian and his wife Elizabeth and the […]
The trilateral working group created to oversee the construction of transport links connecting Armenia and Azerbaijan met for the first time on January 30. The meeting follows a summit between the Prime Minister of Armenia […]
Everyone wants to be happy, yet often people find themselves in situations that cause unhappiness. Our current national predicament is one that causes extreme unhappiness for all of us. Often the mass unhappiness is caused […]
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