Rising star in local journalism Jason Takhtadjian has been named to Central California’s 40 under 40 Class of 2024 in recognition of his reporting on news, sports and Armenian community affairs in Fresno, California. “It’s […]
Jordan’s government has withdrawn its submission of a film about Artsakh to the 97th Academy Awards for Best International Feature, citing “diplomatic pressures” from Azerbaijan. Yet Jordanian Armenian filmmaker Sareen Hairabedian and the team behind […]
The Armenian voices of Artsakh will soon take center stage at the University of Southern California. The USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies will host Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement on Saturday, November 2, 2024 […]
Turkish Armenian economist Daron Acemoglu has been awarded the Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was honored alongside Simon Johnson from MIT and James A. Robinson from […]
WASHINGTON—Over 75 Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) activists from across the U.S. came together on Capitol Hill on September 19, 2024, the one-year anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh. In meetings with their […]
Laura Murvartian has built her campaign for Georgia State Representative, House District 48, on values defined by her family history of immigration and survival. Murvartian has made it her lifelong mission to piece together her […]
Armenia Armenian authorities have denied that an altercation took place between Armenian and Azerbaijani border guards near the Tavush region. Hraparak recently reported that two incidents took place after Azerbaijani troops claimed that a newly-constructed […]
Lara Vanian-Green’s daughter came home from her fourth grade class at Armenian school one day and said that she and her friends were afraid to draw rainbows. Several of the boys in her class would […]
Sima Setian Pariseau, 56, and Dylan Pariseau, 27, pillars of the St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church community of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, died last week, victims of an apparent murder-suicide. “Sima was a quiet leader, a […]
On May 30, high school juniors Alex Kebadjian and João-Cameron Hopkinson delivered a presentation to their peers at Winchester High School in Massachusetts about why, in Kebadjian’s words, Mount Ararat is “more than just a […]
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