It’s nice to be able to kick off the new year with an upbeat article. One of the rays of hope emanating from the Republic of Armenia (RoA) is the very evident beginnings of a […]
If you own some property and lease it to someone else for some activity, usually, but not necessarily economic, you expect the lessee to clean up after her/him/it-self, right? You don’t expect garbage lying around. […]
The last few days have been very Armenia- and Armenian-ful, with a Teghood focus. That’s the virgin, old growth forest in the northern part of the Republic of Armenia that’s being decimated by a massive […]
Evidently, it wasn’t enough that we learned about the trafficking of women from Armenia for use as prostitutes in the Persian Gulf from the exposé done by Ara Manoogian some seven years ago. No doubt, […]
As usual, when it rains, it pours good events in the LA area, and the preceding weekend was no exception to that rule. The best was the set of memorial gatherings for Missak Torlakian, one […]
This time, in exposing some of Assemblymember Mike Gatto’s reprehensible actions, I am indebted to a blog called “Mayor Sam” (http://mayorsam.blogspot.com). The folks writing this website have been doing excellent work documenting Gatto’s errant behaviors […]
We, as a community, have gotten pretty good at supporting published books that address our concerns as a means of getting the word out about our issues. Balakian’s, Berberian’s, Bohjalian’s, and Powers’ books are a […]
For a time of year that is typically slow as far as activities/events/developments go in the Armenian community, the last few weeks seem to have been fairly energetic. I thought it might be worth sharing […]
It’s taken me a few years to finally read the three books below, which struck me as related and worth sharing. Each is a powerful statement. Each represents a time and situation in human history. […]
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