By Amalya Hakobyan and Seda Nikoyan In the battlefield of life, you’re ahead of me In the dim of night, you’re the light of love Wherever you go, there’s a place in my heart That […]
Taline Badrikian’s latest children’s book, Բարի Ջրարջը (Pari Churarchuh – The Kind Raccoon), was released in October, giving parents a new resource to teach their children Western Armenian. Badrikian is a first-generation Armenian American who […]
In vivid, poetic prose, Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, […]
LONDON—Editors Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V Hovhannisyan are pleased to announce the release of the winter 2024 special issue of the Wasafiri magazine for contemporary international writing. This landmark edition, Armenia(n)s: Elevation, is guest co-edited […]
Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century By Ben Alexander Published by I. B.Tauris in 2023 264 pages It’s surprising how little most Armenian Americans know about their recent past. […]
Language is the heart of who we are as a nation. Armenian language and literature are not merely channels for our history, culture and traditions; they are fundamental pillars of our identity. These elements […]
On a Saturday morning, April 13, 1974 to be exact, a thought came to me to visit my maternal grandparents, Simon and Rebecca Tekirian. I had nothing planned that day, and sometimes an unplanned Saturday […]
We gather around the gash in the earth Called Dudan/Duda/Yudan Dere To commune with the dead Through time and space By measuring depth with the drop of a stone. We release one into the gorge/gouge […]
Looking for your next read, but can’t decide where to start? Here are four new and compelling books written by Armenian authors in a list compiled by the International Armenian Literary Alliance. From a short […]
Rivers of patterns splay on a proud khachkar tall, baked by a glowing apricot sky and looming mountains, crisp like knuckles. All rocks cast a shadow. The mountains throw down a gaze where the daisy-yellow […]
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