Ara Nazarian, PhD

Ara Nazarian is an associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a degree in mechanical engineering, followed by graduate degrees from Boston University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He has been involved in the Armenian community for over a decade, having served in a variety of capacities at the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center, Armenian National Committee of America, St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
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Armenia’s twin education crises: Learning deficits, historical amnesia

For decades, Armenians have taken considerable pride in a national tradition of education that has treated schooling as a route…

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Armenia’s Firebird AI megaproject: A comprehensive assessment

The big picture The Firebird AI project in Hrazdan, Armenia, is a large-scale AI data center and cloud computing facility…

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Navigating the Massachusetts and New Hampshire primaries as an Armenian American voter

Editor’s note: The Massachusetts 2026 primary elections took place on Sept. 1. Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in…

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Opinion

What must not be yielded

There are moments in the life of a nation when policy becomes more than policy. A border crossing, a mountain…

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The election Armenia’s opposition was not prepared to win

The June 7, 2026, parliamentary election may prove to be one of the most consequential in Armenia’s post-independence history. Coming…

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Opinion

Armenia’s information war: Conditioning a nation to surrender

For nearly a decade, Armenians have been subjected to a political communication strategy that follows a recognizable and deeply damaging…

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Opinion

Academic platforms and political narratives

Universities traditionally serve as spaces where complex geopolitical questions are examined through transparent debate and rigorous scholarship. When academic institutions…

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A government endorsed by Armenia’s enemies is not sovereign

Three months after Armenia’s disastrous defeat in the 2020 Artsakh War, Onik Gasparyan, then chief of the General Staff of…

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The Samvel Karapetyan case: When philanthropy becomes a threat

Few contemporary Armenian businessmen are as widely recognized — or as influential — as Samvel Karapetyan. The billionaire founder of…

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Podium postures: Two UN speeches, two roads for the South Caucasus

At the United Nations this year, Baku spoke like a state that believes it has already won the war and…

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