Margaret was probably about seven years old when she was taken as a slave in a Turkish household during the Armenian Genocide, and maybe the age of ten at the time of this occurrence. One […]
The United States House of Representatives passed H.Res. 296, the Armenian Genocide resolution! Such was the breaking news coming from our nation’s capital on October 29, 2019. And this was the environment into which I […]
Saturday, September 26 began with a plan and dawned under a beautiful fall sky and seasonable temperatures. This was the day that I would correct a batch of student papers (online, of course, due to […]
This year the Armenian Weekly is hosting, along with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Eastern Region Central Committee, the first ever virtual celebration of the 102nd anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia. While preparing […]
The four of us eagerly boarded the train to New York City on Saturday, February 1 in anticipation of our trip to see Midwives, the newly-adapted play based on Chris Bohjalian’s highly-acclaimed 1998 novel. Our […]
Last Thursday, December 12, along with many others, I sat and watched the historic proceedings in the US Senate with tears streaming down my face. I looked to heaven and thought of all those who were […]
The Armenian Weekly Editorial Board and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Eastern Region (ARF-ER) Central Committee are proud to announce the introduction of longtime ARF member Pauline Getzoyan as editor of the Armenian Weekly. This is […]
For me, probably the worst part of working in news is the industry’s magnetic pull to crisis. (There’s even a saying: “If it bleeds, it leads.”) Of course, there is good reason to fret, especially […]
If there’s anything I’ve learned running a Diasporan newspaper, it’s that there seem to be—at any given point—a million reasons for Armenians in the Diaspora to disagree with one another. We are by no means […]
I have never felt more incomplete walking out of church than I did on Easter Sunday. Something was stirring, and I felt compelled to go back. So on Monday morning, I ran into the groundskeeper, […]
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