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Articles by Matthew Karanian

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Celebrating Independence: Artsakh Then and Now

September 8, 2020 at 8:55 pm 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 at 10:35 pm 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 […]

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Connected for a Century

October 16, 2019 at 8:26 pm 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 […]

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Making ‘The Armenian Highland’

August 7, 2019 at 7:21 pm 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 at 4:31 pm 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 at 10:13 am Matthew Karanian 6

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 at 11:43 am Matthew Karanian 13

  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 at 5:29 am 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 […]

Special Reports

The Hidden Armenians of Western Armenia

February 2, 2015 at 12:18 pm Matthew Karanian 6

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

January 13, 2015 at 11:30 am Matthew Karanian 15

…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 […]

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