Houry Mayissian

Houry Mayissian is a communications professional with journalism and public relations experiences in Dubai, Beirut, and Sydney. She has studied European politics and society at the University of Oxford, specializing on the democratic reform process in Armenia as part of its European integration. She is currently based in Yerevan.
Interviews

Aztag Daily’s Kandaharian on Supporting the Lebanese Armenian Community

Lebanon is grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades. The Lebanese pound, for many years pegged to the US…

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Opinion

In Solidarity with the Armenians of Lebanon

My community in Lebanon needs me. It needs you, it needs us.  Lebanon’s imminent economic collapse and increasingly deepening political…

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Opinion

COVID-19 and the Test for Good Citizenship

Difficult times have a way of bringing out the worst, and the best, in people. As the world grapples with…

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Op-Eds

Let’s talk domestic violence

As Armenia celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, 13 year-old Nazeli lay in a hospital bed in Yerevan fighting…

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Op-Eds

Embracing Social Justice: The ARF in Armenia

  The Armenian Weekly Magazine Dec. 2015: The ARF at 125 After decades of being banned from Soviet Armenia, the…

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Op-Eds

It’s ‘No to Plunder’, Not an Armenian ‘Maidan’

Special to the Armenian Weekly When I shared some of the early photos of the protests by the “No to…

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Headline

The Gyumri Killings: Beyond the Legal Arguments

Special for the Armenian Weekly More than a week since the Gyumri killings, the city and Armenia at large are…

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Armenia’s Changing Political Landscape

Special for the Armenian Weekly Armenia’s political landscape saw quite a few developments in the weeks following the resignation of…

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Thoughts on What It Means to Be Armenian

Special for the Armenian Weekly This year, we traveled to Beirut to celebrate Christmas with my family. It was a…

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A Wake-Up Call for Armenia and the Diaspora

Two weeks ago a few hundred Armenian citizens and activists heeded to Shant Harutyunyan’s call for revolution. Armed with homemade…

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