Sako Arian is a Yerevan-based journalist and poet. He was born in 1972 in Bourdj-Hamoud, Lebanon. In 1997 he published his first book of poetry in Armenian titled "Tartam Togher" (Hesitant Lines). In 2000 he published "Ganayi Harsanik" (Marriage in Cana). His poems have been published in Open Letter Magazine (Los Angeles) and Literary Horizon (Montreal). Arian also contributes to Hetq Online (Yerevan) and Jamanag daily (Istanbul). This is his first article for The Armenian Weekly.