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S. Piligian: Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, My son and I attended the event at ALMA on May 12 on your trips to Turkey (“Sanamyan and Mouradian Talk about Trips to Turkey,” Armenian Weekly, May 22, 2010). I wanted to applaud […]
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Suciyan: ‘Zero Problems’ with Whom? Jordan Cancels Armenian Youth Conference
The AGBU’s Middle East Young Professionals Forum was supposed to take place in Amman, Jordan from June 3-6. However, the meeting was quietly canceled by the Jordanian authorities just the night before. Agos was invited […]
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Ohanian: Are We Innovative Enough?
Armenian socio-political organizations, especially the ones operating in the diaspora, should consistently adapt to their ever-changing environments in order to maintain a high degree of relevance to their stakeholders. In today’s world, adaptability requires continuous […]
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Mouradian: Post-Flotilla Ties Between Turkey and Israel: Irreparable Damage or Just a Hiccup?
BEIRUT, Lebanon—I have been following with horror the news on the Israeli attack on the flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza. The outrage here in Lebanon and the Arab world is palpable. What is […]
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C.K. Garabed: ‘Medz Yeghern’ Revisited
When President Obama used the term Medz Yeghern to characterize the Armenian Genocide, I, along with many others, felt betrayed because he did not use the word genocide as was expected based upon his presidential […]
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Andriani: Echoes of the Past: Some of the Underlying Nuances of Holocaust Trauma in Israel
The Armenian Weekly April 2010 Magazine Introduction Those that are able to flee or survive genocide are faced with far more than an adaptive process of relocation. Not only are survivors grieving the loss of […]
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Cvikova: My Armenian Cinema
A personal trip to the Armenian film landscapes of a film professional By Ludmila Cvikova In 1999, I was invited to visit Georgia and Azerbaijan for the first time, as a representative of the International […]
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A Quiet Place Along the Khabour: Rescue and Survival in ‘the Abattoir of Shaddadeh’
The Armenian Weekly April 2010 Magazine The road to Der Zor—from Bab, Munbij, Meskene, Raqqa—is well documented in the memoirs of Armenian Genocide survivors and foreign eyewitness accounts. However, it wasn’t enough to arrive in […]
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Mensoian: Where Does the ARF Go from Here?
Now that Turkey has shown an unwillingness to ratify the protocols that, paradoxically, were written to address its best interests, and now that President Obama has again failed to refer to his personal acceptance of […]
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Akcam: What Davutoglu Fails to Understand
While the ruling AK Party in Turkey continues to sing the same old tune on the genocide, it is trying out a new style. Our minister of foreign affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, is one of those […]