Special for the Armenian Weekly The colloquial language of my hometown, Gyumri, is a concoction of the dialects brought from…
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Three years ago, I worked at a polling station at a local election. A lady pulled up to our table…
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How many people can say that they have a friend who has a won a Grammy? My friend Abraham Gumroyan,…
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I was born three years after the earthquake, in the city in ruin, in the so-called “Zone of the Catastrophe.”…
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I was born in Armenia (in Gyumri to be exact) when the Soviet Empire was taking its last breaths and…
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