During the Artsakh War of 2020, my group of Diasporan friends and I rushed to the homeland to volunteer. On…
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What or who is a “Western Armenian”? Is it someone descended from genocide survivors who came from communities in the…
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Special for the Armenian Weekly Did we dream a bit too much, a bit too soon? After 25 years of…
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Special for the Armenian Weekly And where do we go now? The storm of the Armenian Genocide Centennial has passed.…
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With the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide approaching, Armenians have done well in preserving the identity of our lost…
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We in the diaspora are losing one of the most pleasurable elements of our culture: toast-mastering, or tamadayutyun in Armenian.…
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Special for the Armenian Weekly YEREVAN, Armenia—The nightly breeze in Yerevan hits me, blowing my long hair in different directions.…
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“You’re Armenian? Well, I know you fought Azerbaijan and won,” a Scandinavian girl told me when we were first introduced…
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Special for The Armenian Weekly I’m starting to feel bad for my father, since he has to put up with…
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“Are you even a good Armenian?” was one of the sharpest responses my previous article, “I Turned My Back on Armenia,”…
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