Skambil/Ooshli Oyin Iskambil is a Turkish term for a playing card or the name of a card game. Dikranagerdtsis use the term skambel for playing cards, and the term Ooshli Oyin for the game others […]
Riddle What nine-letter word in the English language is still a word when each of the nine letters is removed one by one? (For answer, see below.) The Giragos Connection Church: This is the Old […]
After all has been said and done, all the planning and preparation completed, the signpost has an arrow pointing the way. Destination: Armenia. I shall leave behind my family and friends, my church and organizations, […]
Mr. President, how could you! Your candidacy was a breath of fresh air. You stood for change. You made wonderful promises and the Armenian American community put its trust in you. We are now terribly […]
Several pro-establishment Washington think tanks, such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Brookings Institution, Heritage Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, and American […]
On Speaking Out Armenians are castigated for their words while Turks are exonerated of their deeds. Just Remember Darwin and Einstein may have had their theories, but Newton had his laws. Cheerfulness Is a Virtue […]
I grew up in a patriotic family with genocide survivors as parents and uncles or cousins who served the military. Those who flew the American flag kept the spirit visible at all times. Those who […]
Turkey brilliantly accomplished its objectives in the first round of negotiations ostensibly to open the border with Armenia. Ever since 1993, when Turkish leaders closed the border, they set two main preconditions for its reopening: […]
Or To Be Seen In New York, people don’t go to the theater—they go to see hits. Attributed to Louis Jourdan If the Truth Be Known Our immediate predecessors in our historic homeland did not […]
Weeks after his death, a community continues to mourn the loss of its beloved pastor. The passing of Der Vartan Kassabian on March 12 has sent the Merrimack Valley reeling with aftershock and has cast […]
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