Youth
Choose Armenian School
What if you were able to give your children something better than the best? If you had the opportunity to set them up and guarantee for them lifelong friends and a unique education that would […]
Month: May 2021
Columns
“You can be small, and you can be smart”
“Who knows the place where we’ve landed, For how many days are we stranded? When our hearts are empty, when love is gone, ‘Tis in a fire we’ve landed.” ~Hovhannes Tumanyan, 1917 *** “You can […]
Film
Ayanian’s “No Difference Between Us” to feature untold Armenian American stories
Thanks to her documentary What Will Become of Us, which brought the stories of American-Armenian families keeping their culture alive a century after the genocide to public television viewers across the country, Stephanie Ayanian and […]
News
Border crisis ongoing in Syunik, Gegharkunik
One week after the Azerbaijani Armed Forces invaded the Republic of Armenia on May 12, hundreds of Azerbaijani troops remain stationed in the sovereign territory of Armenia amid ongoing negotiations between the two countries and […]
In Sight
Difficult Choices for a Recovering Armenia
It is a significant understatement to say that it has been a trying year for the Republic of Armenia. The Velvet Revolution came to a crashing and somewhat cynical halt as Armenia and its diaspora […]
Youth
Reflections on our National Institutions: My First Year in Chicago
Editor’s Note: The following is the English translation of an original article that appeared in the Hairenik on May 5, 2021. Last September, I found myself as a West Coast transplant in the Midwest — […]
Sports
Katlyn Chookagian dominates in historic UFC 262 win
Katlyn Chookagian has been around the fight game long enough to know that the path to success does not always involve highlight-reel finishes and crazy knockouts. On Saturday night at UFC 262, Chookagian once again […]
My Turn
Turkish group hacked Biden’s website to undermine his presidential election
While it was widely publicized that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2020 US presidential election, very little was reported about similar meddling by Turkey. The US National Intelligence Council (NIC) released on March 15, […]
Nonprofit News
Armenian Legal Center for Justice & Human Rights: State Department’s failure to respond emboldens Azerbaijan by ignoring Armenian POWs
WASHINGTON, DC—The Armenian Legal Center for Justice & Human Rights (ALC) is deeply disappointed by the US State Department’s failure to address and appropriately respond to a February 19, 2021 Congressional bipartisan letter highlighting the […]
Literary Corner
International Armenian Literary Alliance’s mentorship program supports emerging Armenian writers
There are two weeks left to apply to participate in the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s (IALA) first-of-its kind mentorship program to support emerging Armenian writers. The program, run by IALA board member Shahé Mankerian, will […]