Op-Eds
Life and war
As usual I started my Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and news browsing. Facebook was getting flooded with #wewillwin posts. My heart started thumping instinctively: something was amiss. Yes, our Artsakh had been […]
Articles by Manya Israyelyan
Opinion
Benign Indifference with Malignant Consequences
Two weeks in one of the private universities of Armenia opened my eyes to a phenomenon, a destructive practice which undermines the role of education and cripples its mission. Form rather than content, quantity rather […]
Commentary
The Dilemma of State Defense and Self-Destruction
On January 30, Vahram Avagyan, who enlisted in the armed forces of Artsakh six months ago, sustained gunshot wounds which cost his life. The fact itself is agonizing, but what makes it even more heartbreaking […]
Commentary
The Istanbul Convention: A Peril or Prospect for Armenia?
Armenian society has been at loggerheads over the Istanbul Convention — the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence — since it was signed by Armenia on January 18, 2018. In 2019, […]