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 […]
Inside a modestly-sized café on Amiryan Street in downtown Yerevan, Westerners tinker away on tiny laptops. Workers from a local non-profit hash out the morning gossip. Young people from the city’s bearded creative class dash […]
“Spotlight on Our Media” is a special series for the Armenian Weekly highlighting the work of local journalists covering in-country issues. In the summer of 2016, journalist Tatev Khachatryan made a simple, yet startling observation: […]
For every majestic photograph of Mount Ararat from Yerevan posted to Instagram, there is a far less-appealing view lurking just outside the edges of its neatly cropped frame. Plastic bags, bottles, dirty diapers, used yogurt […]
Many of us would like to believe that the power to change the world lies in the hands of consumers—but does it actually? That’s a question I posed recently to Greg Asbed, a recent recipient […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly A man of many talents, Stepan Norair Chahinian brings a new way of processing information through visual representation. From generational branches that stretch back to Urfa, Marash, Iskenderun, and Kessab, […]
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