Culture
Letter to Hrant
The following poem by Khatchig Mouradian appeared in the Armenian Weekly on Feb. 3, 2007, days after Agos Editor Hrant Dink’s assassination in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007. We would like to share it with our […]
Articles by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian
Culture
Mouradian: The Book with a Black Cover
They arrived [in Meskeneh] by the thousands, but the majority left their bones there. —Auguste Bernau, German employee of the American Vacuum Oil Company[1] ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)—The Turkish translation of Aram Andonian’s monumental book […]
News
Mouradian Speaks at First Genocide Commemoration in Aintab (Full Text)
The Story of Two Armenian Midwives Below is the text of a lecture delivered by scholar and former Armenian Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian at the first commemoration of the Armenian Genocide in Aintab, held on […]
Headline
Mouradian: ‘Only That, Which I Gave to Others’
In Memory of Bill Hausrath At long last, what is there left from life? What’s left to me? Strange as it seems, only that, which I gave to others… —Vahan Tekeyan Translated by Tatul Sonentz […]
Opinion
The Road from Diyarbakir: A Call to Deepen Kurdish Commitment to Genocide Justice
BERLIN, Germany (A.W.)—On May 10, a conference on “The 1915 Genocide: Collective Responsibility and Roles; Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian Relations” was held in Berlin. It brought together two generations of Kurdish intellectuals to discuss inter-communal relations […]
Opinion
Mouradian: Encounter with a Skull
We stand aghast at the entrance of an Armenian monastery* perched on a hill near Lake Van. “Is that what I think it is?” I ask George, my companion on a trip to document Armenian […]
Opinion
Mouradian: The Sultans of Swindling
“To dispossess the people unyieldingly, the government has created monopolies (tobacco, salt, railroads, mines), that aim at snatching from the worker’s pocket a part of his earnings and handing it to European or local capitalists.” […]
Interviews
Uprisings from Wall Street to Gezi Park: An Interview with David Barsamian
For more than a quarter of a century, journalist and author David Barsamian has been a tireless voice for social justice, broadcasting programs from India, to Syria, to the United States. Barsamian, whom Howard Zinn […]
Opinion
An Armenian Named Talaat
Talaat is the son of an Armenian Genocide survivor. I first met him on a cold January day in Lice (pronounced Leejeh), a district perched on layer upon layer of violence—first against the Armenians, then […]
News
The Armenian Weekly Releases PDF of April 2013 Magazine
Editor’s Desk: Heritage, Memory, and Justice (Download full PDF of magazine here) In 1929, the Armenian author Hamasdegh made a pilgrimage to the Syrian desert of Der Zor, which he called “that immense graveyard of […]