WORCESTER, Mass.—The sixth annual Worcester Armenian Film Festival, held on May 16 (Sprinkler Factory) and May 19 (Armenian Church of the Martyrs) brought together an eclectic selection of film and discussions with filmmakers. Organized by […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon—After months of careful planning and development, h-pem, an online cultural platform established by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, was launched and made available to the public on May 13, 2019. “There […]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—Hamazkayin Eastern Region held its 43rd convention on May 4 and elected a new regional board. Representatives of Hamazkayin chapters region-wide as well as invited guests attended the convention that discussed the organization’s past […]
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau has condemned the recent attack on the long-serving former ARF Bureau chairperson Hrant Markarian. The ARF says Markarian, an organizer of Artsakh’s struggle for freedom, was physically and verbally […]
THESSALONIKI, Greece—In recent years, scholars have increasingly approached the destruction of Christians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire comparatively, exploring the continuities, similarities in the destruction of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians from the […]
YEREVAN—The Freedom Fighters committee of the ARF Supreme Council of Armenia and the ARF Nigol Aghpalian Student Association created a miniature model map depicting the 1992 liberation of Shushi. The miniature map was displayed near […]
WORCESTER, Mass.—The sixth annual Worcester Armenian Film Festival, featuring screenings and discussions with filmmakers, will take place on Thursday, May 16 at the Sprinkler Factory and Sunday, May 19 at the Armenian Church of the […]
Armenia Armenian authorities want to pull the plug on Russian television channels. They claim the programming promotes racism against Armenians and religious violence. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan recently hosted Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev. This was […]
LANSING, Mich. —Michigan’s House of Representatives has passed legislation that declares April 24 as a Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide from 1915 to 1923. During that time, Armenians, as well as Greeks, Assyrian-Chaldeans, […]
By the 1960s, Armenians were awakening to atrocities of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, which had left an entire generation of parents and grandparents traumatized into silence. In the last sixty years, […]
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