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.
Opinion

The Evil That We Do Not Know: ‘Medz Yeghern’ and the ‘Old Language’

Then he stopped and announced, ‘You know, there was on this land a medz yeghern, a great cataclysm,’ as the…

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Opinion

When Dictionaries Are Left Unopened: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Turned into Terminology of Denial

You may want to know that ‘Meds Yeghern’ does not mean genocide; it means “Great Calamity.” Armenians used that term…

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Opinion

The Turkish-Made ‘Great Calamity’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Became ‘Büyük Felâket’

The “Metz Yeghern,” which means “Great Evil” in Armenian, is the name we Armenians use for the genocide. –Robert Attarian…

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Opinion

The Birth of ‘Great Calamity’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Was Introduced onto the World Stage

… Listen, O Lord, to the lament that rises from this place, to the call of the dead from the…

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News

Teotig: The First Historian of Armenian Printing

Special Issue: Celebrating 500 Years of Armenian Printing The Armenian Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012 (Download article in PDF)  The name…

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Opinion

Matiossian: What Did Uruguay FM Actually Say about Karabagh’s Recognition?

An interesting new chapter in the Armenian-Azerbaijani diplomatic “war” seems to have opened in Latin America after declarations ascribed to…

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