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Articles by Matthew Karanian

History

Discovering an Armenian Church in Bangladesh

March 13, 2023 Matthew Karanian 13

Armen Arslanian, an Armenian from Los Angeles, had been traveling on business to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, for many years. On his first visit in 2010, he discovered an Armenian church. This intrigued […]

Photography

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

October 30, 2022 Matthew Karanian 5

Armenia: The Lone Stone By David Karamian 2022 Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.5 inches x 11.5 inches, 6 lbs. Text in English and Armenian $59.95 David Karamian was a teenager in the Diaspora with dreams […]

Photography

Celebrating Independence: Artsakh Then and Now

September 8, 2020 Matthew Karanian 3

I had just arrived in Artsakh in the summer of 1995, when I heard the distinctive sound of soldiers marching behind me. As I turned around, a group of fresh-faced soldiers marched past me and […]

Family Histories

An Extraordinary Birthday During Extraordinary Times

June 16, 2020 Matthew Karanian 3

I never visit my mom on her birthday, and my mom is just fine with that.  Mom’s birthday is at the end of May. And since Mother’s Day is the second Sunday in May, there’s […]

Reflections

Connected for a Century

October 16, 2019 Matthew Karanian 2

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 […]

Literary Corner

Making ‘The Armenian Highland’

August 7, 2019 Matthew Karanian 8

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 […]

Literary Corner

Searching for Genocide Survivors a Century Ago, in the Classifieds

March 27, 2019 Matthew Karanian 3

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

March 14, 2019 Matthew Karanian 11

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

May 31, 2017 Matthew Karanian 14

  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 […]

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From Haydarpasha to Ayash on April 24 … 2015

April 28, 2015 Matthew Karanian 11

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 […]

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