At first blush, it may seem like an odd pairing: Gurdjieff and Komitas. The father of modern Armenian music, Komitas Vartabed the itinerant priest who recorded thousands of Armenian ballads before the onslaught of the […]
Our country’s love affair with guns is morally depraved and literally killing our fellow citizens. Americans have the right to live in peace and feel unafraid in public. Students have a right to study in […]
The sixth edition of the Socially Relevant Film Festival, executive directed by Nora Armani, gets underway in downtown New York this coming March 16th. Founded to honor the memory of her Cairene cousin Vanya Exerjian, […]
French-Armenian mime artist Vahram Zaryan holds a unique place in today’s performance world. A graduate of Armenia’s National Conservatory in Yerevan and the École internationale de Mime de Paris, he has performed on world stages […]
Billed as a “Festival of American Short Plays,” Throughline Artists’ Summer Shorts at 59 E 59 theaters rarely disappoints. The 2018 presentation is no exception. The festival’s “A Series” highlighted Chris Bohjlian’s first foray into […]
Nancy Agabian’s work occupies a unique place in our contemporary cultural landscape. Known for being a gifted essayist, performance artist and a respected creative writing teacher, Agabian straddles many identities. Within the Armenian world she […]
Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some Author: Chris Edwards Greenleaf Book Group Press (Oct. 4, 2016), 264 pp. ISBN: 978-1626343252; Hardcover, $24.95 Chris Edwards grew up in Wayland, an upper middle-class town in Massachusetts […]
NEW YORK (A.W.)—The Fifth Annual Socially Relevant Film Festival ended with the announcement that two films had won the Grand Jury Prize: “Lou-Andreas Salomé: The Audacity to be Free,” written and directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post […]
The Flight Attendant By Chris Bohjalian Doubleday, New York (March 13, 2018), 368 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542418; Hardcover, $26.95 Special to the Armenian Weekly About 20 pages into The Flight Attendant—by the time protagonist Cassie Snowden extricates […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Two recent books from the Beirut publishing house Al Ayn’s “Photographes du Moyen Orient” (Collection Traces) help to fill in cultural lacunae in the Middle Eastern world—gaps created by a […]
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