Opinion
The Antonym of Genocide
August 23, 2021: In 2015, I was in New York for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity event during which Noubar Afeyan, one of the co-founders of the Prize, asked me if I knew what “the […]
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Addressing the Drug Shortage in Lebanon
It was only a couple of years ago when my career as a pharmacist wasn’t of major importance to the Lebanese people. I was seen as an employee in a community pharmacy dispensing prescribed drugs […]
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From Genocide to War: How Western Feminism Failed Armenian Women
Outside Parliament House, women clenched their banners close to their chests like shields as they rallied against the violence inflicted upon their sisters. It was question time. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison pushed past the […]
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Justice Everywhere
What does it mean for Armenians to stand in trans-national solidarity? Monte Melkonian, an Armenian-American revolutionary, leftist and military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh War during the 1990s, wrote in his article “The Question of Strategy” […]
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Turkish-Greek Geopolitical Dispute over the Aegean Sea and its Archipelago
Recent disputes in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey are of a persistent nature. In addition to the centuries-old, love/hate relationship between the two people, the two NATO-allied states are rivals over natural resources […]
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Istanbul Canal: A Megaproject with Strategic Implications
Istanbul’s geographical positioning, rich cultural heritage, religious symbolism and location as a major trading routes’ crossroad led Napoleon Bonaparte to once declare that “if the Earth were a single state, Constantinople would be its capital.” […]
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Why Pashinyan has to go
Armenia’s snap elections are fast approaching on June 20, and they may literally determine whether Armenia continues to exist as an independent state or is partitioned by its surrounding states. With hundreds of Azerbaijani troops […]
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A Very Bad Habit
Our US Department of State has a bad habit of lying about Armenians. The facts are clear. The pattern is evident. In our American public record. They shamelessly denied and covered up for Turkey about […]
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America needs an Ambassador in Armenia
Soon after America achieved its independence, the US Department of State was formally and wisely established as the Department of Foreign Affairs by our very first Congress on July 27, 1789. In less than a […]
Opinion
The Good will win, eventually …
I was born in Beirut, Lebanon on February 8, 1957. I’m a Lebanese-Armenian who has lived with dual identities and histories all my life – ones filled with struggle and wars, to say the least. […]