
My Yorghani
Holding a long wooden dowel in her hand A learned tradition from her former land She batted and fluffed until it was full the cushiony and treasured pure lambswool With heavy needle and weighty thread […]
Holding a long wooden dowel in her hand A learned tradition from her former land She batted and fluffed until it was full the cushiony and treasured pure lambswool With heavy needle and weighty thread […]
Chris Bohjalian’s new novel Hour of the Witch “tolls on May 4,” as he notes. As is a beloved tradition at the Armenian Weekly, we had the opportunity to discuss the latest in his vast […]
NOVI, Mich.—Michigan-based author Ariana Kabodian has published Forget Me Not: Armenian Genocide Recollections in honor of this year’s 106th anniversary commemoration on April 24. Kabodian, a descendant of Genocide survivors, wrote Forget Me Not: Armenian […]
It was before a sold-out audience back in November 2019 when Lillian Avedian proclaimed her lifelong commitment to living out her Armenian feminist ideals. “I have found my voice,” she asserted during her reading of […]
PARAMUS, NJ—Who are the heroes in Armenian history? Which real life heroes do we teach our children about? The illustrated children’s book The Angel of Aleppo is one such attempt. Published by the Armenian Missionary […]
Bible Engagement: The Discovery of Faith, Hope and Self Dr. Hrayr Jebejian Lebanon: Bible Society in the Gulf, 2019 138 pp. Hardcover Dr. Hrayr Jebejian’s lively and well-organized study Bible Engagement: The Discovery of Faith, […]
The Armenians of Aintab The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province by Ümit Kurt Harvard University Press Publication Date: April 13, 2021 $45.00 400 pp. Ümit Kurt, born and raised in Gaziantep, Turkey, was […]
Yes im anush Hayastani arevaham barn em sirum. I love the sun-baked taste of the Armenian word. This verse, which also serves as the title of a poem Yeghishe Charents wrote in the early 1920s, […]
When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel’s First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide and banned Armenian lecturers, the Israeli government followed suit. This book […]
The berry of the fruit crushes upon my tongue, bitter, sweet, savored. And the hills cascade into waves of green, rising with the patter of my footsteps, lowered by the weight of fruits of labor […]
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