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 Tatul Sonentz-Papazian
Opinion
Beyond Genocide
One-hundred-and-six years ago, a sporadically applied genocidal process—started around a quarter of a century earlier—took an ominously sinister leap into the unthinkable. Concealed behind the smokescreen of the Great War of 1914-1918 and having already […]
Opinion
On the Threshold of the 106th Commemoration of the Genocide
Along the millennia that Armenia’s history has covered, a mere century may easily pass unnoticed. Nevertheless, in the aftermath of our last disastrous debacle in defense of Fortress Artsakh and the betrayal of Shushi, a […]
Commentary
From Commemoration to Celebration
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sèvres It is hard to believe, but 55 years have passed since the 50th commemoration […]
Culture
Charents: For the New Year
I am entering a New Year—but for what new thing Is my sad heart yearning? …An enormous wheel, In spite of my or your wishes, oh, Leader— Keeps turning round—forever and ever… And its turns […]
Op-Eds
Sonentz: In Memory of General Dro
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On the eve of Veteran’s Day, the Armenia Tree Project (ATP) and the Kanayan family hosted a special dinner in Watertown, honoring Armenian hero General Drastamat “Dro” Kanayan, who led the triumphant Armenian […]
Op-Eds
Commemorating an Ongoing Genocide as an Event of the Past…
From the Armenian Weekly 2017 Magazine Dedicated to the 102nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide In these troubled times of change and transformation, it can be safely stated that humanity, outpaced by runaway technology, has […]
Culture
Shiraz: My Mother
My Mother My mother—gate to our hopes, She is the chapel of our homes, She is our cradle, my mother, The fort of our home, my mother, My mother is both mother and father, She […]
Culture
Poem: Pater
“Come,” he said, Taking me by the hand And leading me towards The clear, visible horizon, and Beyond it, as it turned invisible, Onwards, through sunflower fields Moonlit trees and many galaxies Of fireflies frozen […]