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, […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly The future of pet care has looked pretty bright in the West for quite some time now. According to the Washington Post, in 2015 alone Americans spent $11 billion on products and […]
Author and literary critic Krikor Beledian’s Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France, translated from the original French into English by Christopher Atamian, is a groundbreaking study of the Armenian literary scene in the […]
An Interview with ‘They Shall Not Perish’ Executive Producer Shant Mardirossian WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—During the Armenian Genocide, the plight of the Armenian people was making headlines throughout the United States. Thousands of miles away […]
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