The Seamstress of Ourfa Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss Armida Publications, 2018 Here, at last, is a book about strong Armenian women. Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss has written the story of her maternal family’s origins in Ourfa, a […]
Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey Avedis Hadjian I.B. Tauris, 2018 592 pages Avedis Hadjian’s writing is so beautiful and touching that reading the introduction to his new book “Secret Nation” brought tears to […]
In “Jeweler to an Emperor: Bedros A. Sevadjian (1918-1977),” (Armenian Weekly, Aug. 15, 2016), I wrote about the gold tray that Emperor Haile Selassie commissioned from my father, Bedros Sevadjian, as a gift to Queen […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly The Museum Resource Center in Washington D.C. hosted a reception on June 15 in honor of my father, Bedros Sevadjian, jeweler and silversmith “By Appointment to His Imperial Majesty Haile […]
Bedros Sevadjian was an Armenian who was born in Aintab, Ottoman Empire, on 21st May 1918. His father, Avedis Sevadjian, had been a successfully established merchant and industrialist in Ethiopia from 1900 having settled […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly A few weeks ago I attended Badarak at Sourp Asdvadzadzin Cathedral in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. I especially like Badarak there because of the fine choir, John Guevherian’s […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly In a conversation with His Eminence Archbishop Nareg Alemazian at the beginning of May, I expressed my wish to visit Antelias in Lebanon, the current Seat of the See of […]
The Monastery of St. Magar, or Magaravank as it is better known to Armenians, is situated high in the Kyrenia Range of North (Turkish-occupied) Cyprus. The annual pilgrimage to the monastery was suspended in 1974 […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly At the beginning of March, a Requiem was offered for my parents and for the Sevadjian clan, and it transported me back 40 years to when I had last been […]
Special for the Armenian Weekly Irredeemable loss, violence, and atrocities; how to write about these subjects in a novel for young people? Most stories, written for young adults, even those with a fairly violent and […]
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