Music
Battle Everlasting
One year ago on October 6, as the global Armenian community was coming to grips with its nation at war for its very existence, news spread from the battlefield of the devastating loss of Kevork […]
Articles by Rupen Janbazian
News
Aram Manoukian’s bust unveiled in Yerevan’s ARF Aram Manoukian Youth Center
YEREVAN—The bronze bust of Aram Manoukian, one of the founders of the Republic of Armenia, was unveiled on Thursday at the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Aram Manoukian Youth Center of Yerevan. The sculpture, which is […]
Reflections
Thursdays with (Unger) Michael
I remember the day unger Michael first walked into my office at the Hairenik headquarters in Watertown, Mass. “So, you’re the new guy in town? From Canada, right? We’re going to breakfast. Let’s go,” he said in […]
Editorials
A Hairenik Away from Home
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly The first time I walked through the doors of the Hairenik headquarters […]
History
How Things Have Changed: Publishing the Weekly in 1948
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly If you were to take a moment to think about how technology […]
Literary Corner
Karanian’s ‘The Armenian Highland’: A Printed-and-Bound Beauty
The Armenian Highland: Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic of 1918 By Matthew Karanian Stone Garden Press; First edition (April 15, 2019) Hardcover, $49.95 I first met Matthew Karanian at the Hairenik offices in […]
Diaspora
Statue of Nurse who Rescued Thousands of Armenian Orphans to be Erected this Weekend
Born in the village of Chegoggin, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1872, nurse Sara Corning made it her life’s mission to help others. In her mid-twenties, she moved to the United States for training and worked […]
Literary Corner
All the Way to Canada
I am sitting at the shore of Kınalı*. The Marmara Sea opens—serene and blue— I fling a rock into the sea. I pitch the rock—rings float on the Marmara— I pitch the rock—new rings form […]
History
Population Data about Armenians in Ottoman Istanbul Now Online
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Over hundreds of years, scholars of the Armenian and Ottoman worlds have produced a wealth of knowledge that, until recently, was rarely linked. More recently, researchers like University of California Los Angeles PhD […]
Poetry