Lilly Torosyan

Lilly Torosyan is editor of the Armenian Weekly and a member of the Armenian Nutmegger community. (That’s Connecticut nutmegs by way of Sasun walnuts). Her writing focuses on the confluence of identity, cultural continuity and language – especially within the global Armenian communities. She previously served as the assistant project manager at h-pem, an Armenian cultural platform launched by the Hamazkayin Central Executive Board, and a freelance writer in Armenia.
A Word from the Editor

A piece of peace, a murder foretold

Growing up, my sister and I spent summers with our mother’s relatives in Yerevan. For two months, every two years,…

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Briefs

The Region in Brief

Armenia The U.S. Embassy has welcomed an agreement between Lydian Canada Ventures and Armenia to restart the Amulsar mining project,…

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A Word from the Editor

Akh parig, Hrant

Ten years to the date, I was at a candlelight vigil in London, co-hosted by SOAS university’s Armenian, Kurdish and…

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A Word from the Editor

After the fire, a rose

Last week, after sending the newspaper off to the printer, I checked into social media. The first post I saw…

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Briefs

The Region in Brief

Armenia Russian border guards have withdrawn from the Agarak border checkpoint, located on the Armenia-Iran border, for the first time…

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A Word from the Editor

The Armenian Weekly: 91 years of light, loss and hope

Today marks the first issue of The Armenian Weekly in its 91st year.  A milestone, yes — but for me,…

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Diaspora

Memorializing the “lost” villages of Western Armenia

This was the title of Dr. Khatchig Mouradian’s talk, presented at NAASR on Thursday, November 14, 2024. In it, he…

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Literary Corner

A conversation with Elyse Semerdjian, author of “Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide”

“This photograph was never meant to be a precious artifact.” That is the first line in historian Elyse Semerdjian’s Remnants:…

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Culture

Reflections on Hamazkayin’s Cultural Retreat at NAASR

To reflect on this weekend, perhaps it is easiest to start backwards. In his opening remarks during the Artsakh roundtable…

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Poetry

To those who seek to destroy us, I see you

I didn’t realize it was a date – I never do. This skin, wrapped in so many layers, has forgotten…

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