Month: September 2024

Same Olympics, different perspective…90 years of magic

As the co-chair of the AYF-YOARF 90th Annual Senior Olympic Games, I initially believed that this year’s Olympics would feel…

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The joy of coming home

It was with great anticipation that my wife and I arrived in Armenia last week. It has been almost two…

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Pashinyan meets with Erdoğan ahead of foreign ministers’ meeting in New York

YEREVAN—On September 26, a meeting between Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and U.S. Secretary of…

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The Region in Brief

Armenia Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova are set to hold a bilateral meeting during…

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Forty days from election, Kamala Harris starts courting Armenian American voters

WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris expressed support for the “right for Armenians displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh to return safely to their…

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Vice President Kamala Harris commemorates Armenian Independence Day

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris released a letter today addressed to the Armenian American community commemorating Armenia’s independence…

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My immersive experience at Hamazkayin Camp Petag

Hello, my name is Hrug. I am 11 years old and from Maryland. This summer, I spent an amazing 12…

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Bridging youth in Javakhk and the Diaspora

Growing up in the AYF, whether it’s during Junior Seminar, at Camp Haiastan or in our monthly chapter meetings, we…

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Raise your Armenian coffee cup on International Coffee Day

While researching the history of coffee in honor of International Coffee Day to be celebrated on October 1, I was…

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Pashinyan’s remarks at Diaspora summit: Wrong ideas, wrong timing, wrong place

I would like to comment on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s shocking statements at the Global Armenian Summit in Yerevan on…

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