Literary Corner
Making ‘The Armenian Highland’
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
Articles by Matthew Karanian
Literary Corner
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 newspaper in the United States. His message was simple, and it was direct. I am […]
Literary Corner
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 it? Laura, an Armenian American from Rhode Island, was in the Western Armenia town of […]
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 day in Chunkush. The children who normally filled its streets with laughter were instead busy […]
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 door. No noise on the street. No alarm clock. Just a sudden awakening and an […]
Special Reports
The Hidden Armenians of Western Armenia
The following was adapted from ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years’ (Stone Garden Press, $39.95, Pub. Feb. 2015) by Matthew Karanian. Pre-order now for $35 postpaid in the U.S. from Stone Garden Productions, PO Box 7758, […]
Opinion
Searching for Historic Armenia after 100 Years
…And Finding that There’s Enough to Fill a Book Special for the Armenian Weekly The last boat had just departed Aghtamar Island and I was on board, heading back to the mainland near Van, when […]
Featured
Kharpert: The Golden Plain of the Armenian Plateau
The following excerpt has been adapted from Historic Armenia After 100 Years: Ani, Kars, and the Six Provinces of Western Armenia (Stone Garden Press, $39.95, Pub. Feb. 2015) by Matthew Karanian. Kharpert is the Voski […]
Special Reports
Dual Survival: Man and Church in the Lake Van Region of Historic Armenia
Story and photos by Mathhew Karanian (Special to the Armenian Weekly) If you’ve ever watched a reality survival show on television—one of those shows were a couple of adventurers get dropped off in a desert […]
News
Armenians Celebrate First Baptisms at Aghtamar Since 1915
Special to the Armenian Weekly For the first time since 1915, the Armenian Church performed the rite of baptism at the Church of the Holy Cross (Sourp Khatch) on Aghtamar Island in Lake Van. Two […]