NEW BRITAIN, Conn.— When Ardemis arrived in New Britain, Conn., as a 15-year-old orphan of the Armenian Genocide, she immediately set about putting her life in order. The Hairenik, a prominent newspaper that served the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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