French-Armenian mime artist Vahram Zaryan holds a unique place in today’s performance world. A graduate of Armenia’s National Conservatory in Yerevan and the École internationale de Mime de Paris, he has performed on world stages […]
Diàna Markosian, a 29-year-old Armenian-American photographer, has a firm grasp on what displacement can entail. At the age of seven, she moved from Moscow to America. She describes the impact of migration on her life […]
Armenia has always been blessed with bountiful lands, ripe for the agricultural undertaking, and the country’s culinary heritage is, as a result, a point of pride for its residents. But how is food in Armenia […]
A young boy wanders alone through a dark wilderness, lit only by the occasional ghostly flickers of fireflies. He passes through a field, a forest, and a cave before the fireflies lead him to a […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly I met with Leslie Ayvazian on a Thursday afternoon in a hotel in Koreatown called The LINE—right in the heart of LA. Before we sat in a crescent-looking booth at […]
This interview originally appeared on the Armenian Weekly Podcast, Episode 1. Karine Vann: I’m Karine Vann and today on our show, I’m going to be speaking with Dr. Irina Ghaplanyan. She’s a political analyst, […]
From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia Professor Richard Hovannisian is often asked about the First Armenian Republic. He is, after all, an authority on the […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly By Aris Janigian In 2011, writer and director Christopher Atamian’s pristine translation of Nigoghos Sarafian’s The Bois de Vincennes was issued, followed just last year by his monumental translation of Krikor […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Artyom Manukyan makes music that won’t get out of your head—in a good way. His interaction between listener and performer is a circular response, a reciprocal relationship between the audience […]
Anyone that’s ever tried to learn Armenian eventually comes into contact with the bizarre duality of the language—namely, that there are two. And these two dialects are divided, as the rest of the world appears […]
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