Vartan Matiossian

Born in Montevideo (Uruguay) and long-time resident of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Dr. Vartan Matiossian is a historian, literary scholar, translator and educator living in New Jersey. He has published six books on Armenian history and literature (five in Armenian and one in Spanish), and scores of articles in Armenian, Spanish, and English. He is currently the executive director of the Armenian National Education Committee in New York and book review editor of Armenian Review.
Culture

Book Review: ‘The Sins of the Fathers’—The Cardinal Sin of Denial

The Sins of the Fathers: Turkish Denialism and the Armenian Genocide By Siobhan Nash-Marshall The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York…

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SAS Holds 40th Anniversary Workshop in Yerevan

A Pioneering Effort with a Promising Future On its 40th anniversary, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) organized an unprecedented…

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Special Reports

The Quest for Aurora: On ‘Ravished Armenia’ and its Surviving Fragment

Special for The Armenian Weekly April Magazine A personal memoir Four score and 15 years ago, “Ravished Armenia” (or “Auction…

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Opinion

What I Choose It to Mean: On ‘Yeghern’ as the Armenian Translation of ‘Genocide’

“The term Yeghern, or Medz Yeghern, is the only word that really captures the essence of what happened in 1915.…

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Opinion

Word Atrocities: Of Little Phrases and Great Crimes

Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it—and like too many…

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Special Reports

What Our Words Mean: Towards the Vindication of ‘Medz Yeghern’

People do not bother to look for attitudes and terminology which will assert their unique identities, but rather opt for…

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Opinion

The ‘Exact Translation’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Means Genocide

Yes, until World War II, the Medz Yeghern of 1915 was unprecedented not only in the history of our people,…

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Opinion

The Self-Delusion of ‘Great Calamity’: What ‘Medz Yeghern’ Actually Means Today

Towards the metropolis of the Medz Yeghern (Avetis Aharonian, 1918)1 In our previous article, we established that “Medz Yeghern” literally…

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Opinion

The ‘Great Calamity’ Hoax: What ‘Medz Yeghern’ Actually Meant for the Survivors

“…All those human-like monsters who executed the Medz Yeghern and tainted their hands with the innocent blood of the Armenians.”…

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Opinion

The Great Crime that Was Brewing: The Meaning of ‘Medz Yeghern’ before 1915

‘We want to believe in the victory of Freedom and of tomorrow’s brotherhood, we want to enjoy smiles, we want to…

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