Louise Manoogian Simone passed away at the age of 85 on February 18, announced the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). Louise will be remembered for her unwavering dedication to civic leadership and philanthropy and her […]
Renowned scholar and author Anahide Ter Minassian died at her home in Fresnes on February 11. She was 85. Ter Minassian was a historian and a lecturer at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences […]
PARIS (RFE/RL’s Armenian Service)—French President Emmanuel Macron has declared April 24 as a day for the commemoration in France of the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Macron announced the move late on Tuesday […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—The first-ever English translation of the 75 year-old Armenian classic—Letter to Yerevan—debuted at number one on Amazon’s Hot New Releases list for both “Russian and Former Soviet Union Poetry” and “Middle Eastern Poetry” categories. […]
French-Armenian award-winning jazz musician and pianist Michel Legrand has died. He passed away at his home in France on Saturday, January 26. He was 86 years old. Legrand started his musical education at a young […]
During a dinner in Zurich, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addressed a room of Swiss businessmen. His speech, republished below in full, is characterized by a staunchly neoliberal rhetoric, in which Pashinyan described Armenia’s tax code […]
Update 01/23/19: JAMNews has reported that in response to the protests, Imprisoned blogger Mehman Huseynov will be released from prison at the end of his two year term, per President Ilham Aliyev’s request. BAKU (JAMNews)—The National […]
YEREVAN—The 33rd World Congress of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation will be held from January 16 to 24 in Artsakh, with more than 100 delegates from all regions of the organization, as well as guests from […]
Idaho-based Armenian-American activist and entrepreneur Liyah Babayan, a native of Baku, has released her first book, Liminal: a refugee memoir. Based around journal entries written by her at a young age and documenting her family’s […]
We hope these gift suggestions from Armenia and the Diaspora will satisfy someone on your list this holiday season, right up through Armenian Christmas on January 6, 2019. This list has not been sponsored or […]
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