Artsakh President Arayik Harutunyan has joined his countrymen on the frontline as heavy fighting continues for the seventh day along the Artsakh-Azerbaijani Line of Contact. “With the Special Forces Units, I am off to the […]
Artsakh’s populated capital of Stepanakert was bombarded by intense shelling well into the evening hours on Friday in the first offensive launched against the city since the end of the Artsakh Liberation War. Air raid […]
Maral Der Boghossian has dreamed of cities since childhood. As a young girl growing up in Beirut, she would walk with her mother to one of her grandmother’s houses after school, each of whom lived […]
In the documentary “100 Years from Home,” questions chart Lilit Pilikian and Jared White’s journey across the globe. “How do we get over these wounds?” Pilikian asks her mother over the phone, sitting in the […]
In 1924, Lousaper and Anna Kussajikian were reunited after years of painful separation through a photograph. The Kussajikian sisters were born in Marash in the Ottoman Empire and survived massacres that claimed the rest of […]
In doing anti-racist work, the question often arises within immigrant communities of how to discuss systemic racism with older family members who may have little exposure to the vocabulary of social justice movements. Thus enters […]
Much has already been said and written about the increasing tensions along Armenia’s international border with Azerbaijan since deadly assaults on the region of Tavush began just over two weeks ago. In an attempt to […]
A virtual forum hosted by the progressive Boston-based Armenian activist collective Zoravik on Monday evening explored a shared history of subjugation, violence, exclusion and denial to advise what the Black Lives Matter movement can and […]
The following statements from Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were directed to Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on July 20, 2020 following the […]
Growing up in a private Armenian school, I read a copious amount of Armenian poems. These poems, all part of the Armenian literary canon, addressed overlapping themes: identity, assimilation, nationalism, language, religion. From these poems, […]
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