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‘It lingers in my mind.’

August 19, 2020 Peter Najarian 1

On February 19, 2020, I received an email from writer and scholar David Calonne, whose review of my 2017 novel The Naked & the Nude was published in the Armenian Weekly last summer. Calonne was […]

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The Prince of Wentworth Street

May 13, 2020 John Christie 4

Losing your way in mid-life, as I did about ten years ago, is not unusual. As we reach our sixth and seventh decades, we find we may have shed the identities that we believed defined […]

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Light and Momentary Troubles

December 6, 2019 Sarah Stites 3

When I think about it now, it’s fitting that I first met Raya near a railroad. I didn’t know it at the time, but for her, trains hold many memories. They are a symbol of […]

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Speaking Armenian—Choice? Luxury? Bother?

January 23, 2019 Milena Baghdasaryan 14

I put down the pen and stared at the paper for ten minutes. I checked the dictionary, revisited my mind’s wordbook. Countless minutes passed. I was still unable to find what I was looking for. […]

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Excerpt from the New Memoir, ‘Liminal,’ by a Baku Pogrom Survivor

January 14, 2019 Weekly Staff 0

Idaho-based Armenian-American activist and entrepreneur Liyah Babayan, a native of Baku, has released her first book, Liminal: a refugee memoir. Based around journal entries written by her at a young age and documenting her family’s […]

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I Was a Star Student in Armenia—Then I Left

January 4, 2019 Milena Baghdasaryan 18

There was pain in the upper eyelid and redness inside the eye. At four in the morning, I was alone in a washroom, looking deep into my eyes through a large and limpid mirror. There […]

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Macy’s Day Parade in Artsakh

December 6, 2018 Robert Fullam 1

I’ve never been to the famous Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, but the closest I’ve felt to it was in the courtyard of a house in Stepanakert. Even though I wasn’t on […]

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Moving to France Made Me Question Everything—Except the Fact that I’m Armenian

November 29, 2018 Guest Contributor 2

On a cold sunny day in Paris this past October, I leaned against a column inside the courtyard of the Invalides and watched Charles Aznavour’s funeral service. I was on crutches, and I remember thinking […]

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Suburban America Through the Recipe Cabinet of My Immigrant Mother

November 15, 2018 Karine Vann 2

For years, I’ve eyed my mother’s recipe cabinet longingly. Brimming with books slung together in no particular rhyme or reason, it occupies two giant floor cupboards in my parents’ kitchen. I have hoped to one […]

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Ara Jan, Goodbye…

November 7, 2018 Nigol Bezjian 0

Beirut. October 18, 2018. Thursday. Mgrdich Ara Derderian, known as Ara Güler passed away today at the age of 90. The story of my meeting the giant photographer took place many years ago, in Aleppo […]

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