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Animal Behavior
No matter what country they live in or how many figures they make a year, there seems to be one universal truth that moms and dads everywhere know; that at some point, their children will […]
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Feast of Ashes
Feast of Ashes is the story of my maternal grandfather, David Ohannessian, who mastered the art of ceramic making in Kütahya, in Ottoman Turkey, in the years before the First World War. During the Armenian […]
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AIWA Releases Newly Translated 1883 Armenian Novel Advocating Equal Rights for Women
BOSTON, Mass. – The Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) has announced the release of its latest book, Srpuhi Dussap’s pioneering Armenian feminist novel Mayda: Echoes of Protest. Published in 1883 in Istanbul, in the midst […]
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Book Review: A Place Called Gyumri
A Place Called Gyumri: Life in the Armenian Mountains By Knarik O. Meneshian Hairenik Press, 2020 276 pp. $35 Knarik Meneshian’s A Place Called Gyumri: Life in the Armenian Mountains is an absolutely fabulous account […]
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Classic Children’s Series Frog and Toad Translated into Armenian
The Armenian School of St. Leon Armenian Church in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in conjunction with Cascade Press is proud to present the first-ever Armenian language translation of Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad series. This […]
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The Red Lotus
When my great friend, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, was kind enough to ask me for an excerpt from my new novel, The Red Lotus, for the Weekly, I knew I needed to provide the prologue to […]
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Two Fortresses and Mother Armenia
Reprinted with permission. “Let’s go for a walk,” I said to Murad one balmy, sunny day, and together we strolled down Rishkov Street, past Yot Verk Church, and up the street to Central Park, where […]
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Book Review: La Fanfare du Négus
La Fanfare du Négus By Boris Adjemian EHESS, 2013 350 pp. $28.17 paperback This book, in French, is an interesting analysis—in the field of diaspora studies—of the Armenian community of Ethiopia in the nineteenth and […]
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Getting to Know Knarik Meneshian
The Armenian Weekly staff conducted the following interview with Knarik Meneshian, a longtime contributor to the Weekly and the author of the recently published book A Place Called Gyumri. Knarik O. Meneshian was born in […]
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Book Review: Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach
Waiting for Sophia at Shutters on the Beach By Aris Janigian Regent Press Printers & Publishers, 2019 200 pp. $15.95 paperback Whether it’s Bloodvine (2003)—Aris Janigian’s first novel of immigrants trying to make it in […]