Matthew Karanian

Matthew Karanian practices law in Pasadena, Calif. He is the author of ‘The Armenian Highland: Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic of 1918’ (Stone Garden Press, 2019). For more information, visit www.historicarmeniabook.com
Special Reports

Discovering an Armenian Church in Bangladesh

Armen Arslanian, an Armenian from Los Angeles, had been traveling on business to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, for…

Read More »
Literary Corner

Armenia: The Lone Stone exudes the excitement of the book’s photographer

Armenia: The Lone Stone By David Karamian 2022 Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.5 inches x 11.5 inches, 6 lbs. Text…

Read More »
Photography

Celebrating Independence: Artsakh Then and Now

I had just arrived in Artsakh in the summer of 1995, when I heard the distinctive sound of soldiers marching…

Read More »
Featured

An Extraordinary Birthday During Extraordinary Times

I never visit my mom on her birthday, and my mom is just fine with that.  Mom’s birthday is at…

Read More »
Family Histories

Connected for a Century

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.— When Ardemis arrived in New Britain, Conn., as a 15-year-old orphan of the Armenian Genocide, she immediately…

Read More »
Travel

Making ‘The Armenian Highland’

Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish…

Read More »
Family Histories

Searching for Genocide Survivors a Century Ago, in the Classifieds

One century ago, on April 22, 1919, my grandfather placed a classified advertisement in the Hairenik, the leading Armenian language…

Read More »
Travel

Searching for the Family Homestead But Finding, Instead, One’s Family

Laura Gaboudian walked up to the rusted fence that was guarding a ramshackle and apparently abandoned house. Could this be…

Read More »
Special Reports

Karanian: Building Bridges in Western Armenia

  From the Armenian Weekly 2017 Magazine Dedicated to the 102nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Thursday was a school…

Read More »
Op-Eds

From Haydarpasha to Ayash on April 24 … 2015

Special for the Armenian Weekly I was awakened unexpectedly at 4 a.m. on April 24, 2015. There was no knock at the…

Read More »
Back to top button