When Patricia Kaishian was growing up in Putnam County north of New York City, she and her five siblings spent long hours playing in the woods behind their house. There was a stream that ran […]
When I visited East Jerusalem for the first time in 2010 under the auspices of the Palestine Festival of Literature, I was given a reality tour of the Israeli occupation. I was shocked by how […]
Leo Kricorian passed away on Friday, May 15, 2020 from complications of COVID-19. Leo was a lifelong resident of Watertown, Massachusetts and a member of the Watertown Evangelical Church. He was born on August 4, […]
The Opening Over the course of ten months in 2014-2015, I traveled to Turkey three times. I went to reconnect with the land where my grandparents had been born and the places they had fled—my […]
Editor’s Note: Famed Armenian-American poet and author Diana Der Hovanessian passed away on March 1 in Cambridge, Mass. Der Hovanessian was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than […]
The following piece by New York-based novelist, essayist, and activist Nancy Kricorian will be published in the upcoming anthology This Is Not a Border: Reportage and Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. *** G […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly In June 2014, during an Armenian Heritage Trip with seasoned guide Armen Aroyan, I was part of a group that traveled throughout Turkey, covering perhaps one-third of the country, including […]
Competing Narratives of Suffering The Armenian Weekly Magazine April 2015: A Century of Resistance A global non-governmental and governmental regime has arisen to promote “dialogue,” “reconciliation,” and various “peace processes” among peoples in conflict. I […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly This past summer during the height of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” against the Gaza Strip, I noticed the name Ivan Karakashian, advocacy unit coordinator of Defense for Children International Palestine […]
My working method as a novelist has become clearer to me with each new book. Like a bird building a nest, I collect scraps and fragments of stories from people who have lived through a […]
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