Special Reports

Another Year of Learning: ARS Detroit Zavarian Armenian One-Day School Kicks off New School Year

Story and Photos By Georgi-Ann Bargamian Oshagan “[Armenian Schools] are the light of our eyes. If your eyes can’t see, you are blind. Our schools are our eyes. That’s how we need to look at our schools.” —Archbishop Shahan Sarkisian, Prelate of Aleppo, Syria, on the cultural [more...]

September 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Armenian Weekly Exclusive: Secretly Taken Photographs of Surp Giragos Desecration

Exclusive Photographs: Surp Giragos Has Been Off Limits to the Public Since the Most Recent Clashes between the Turkish Military and Kurdish Fighters in Diyarbakir DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—The Armenian Weekly has received a set of secretly taken photographs inside Diyarbakir’s Surp Giragos [more...]

September 1, 2017 // 10 Comments

Soccer: Armenia Plays Two Crunch World Cup Qualifiers

Special to the Armenian Weekly The first international break of the season is always an interesting time in soccer/football. Domestic campaigns already have a match or two in the books, depending on the country and league. The English Premier League (EPL) is usually ahead of the curve with [more...]

August 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

Unseen Armenia: Kamaris and Akori (Part II)

Friedrich Parrot of the University of Dortmund, Germany, accompanied by his translator and author, Khachatur Abovian, made the first documented ascent of Mount Ararat in October 1829. Parrot visited Akori before the earthquake, writing that the monastery was built in 1288, as evidenced by an [more...]

August 29, 2017 // 1 Comment

ARS Eastern USA’s 97th Annual Convention Convenes in Arlington

Convention Applauds 2017 Fundraising, Program Success; Sets New Goals for 2017-18 Fiscal Year By Convention Reporter, Georgi-Ann Oshagan ARLINGTON, Va. (A.W.)—Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Eastern United States (ARS Eastern USA) delegates gathered in Arlington, Va., June 20-23, for the [more...]

August 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unseen Armenia: Kamaris and Akori (Part I)

Kamaris[i] is a village in Kotayk marz (province) with a population of about 2,000, according to figures from 2001. There are reportedly Bronze Age tombs in the vicinity. Atop the hill, past the old and new cemeteries, are scant remains of an old Persian settlement. Kamaris Surb Astvatsatsin church [more...]

August 2, 2017 // 5 Comments

Who Is Mahmut Konuk? Why Is He on the Streets of Ankara?

Translated by Attila Tuygan and Rehan Nişanyan Special to the Armenian Weekly For the past five months, Mahmut Konuk has been staging sit-ins in front of the Çankaya Community Health Center in Ankara, as well as participating in a wide range of other protest actions in Turkey’s capital. [more...]

July 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Story of a Silver Wreath: An Ethiopian Emperor, and an Armenian Jeweler

Special for the Armenian Weekly The Museum Resource Center in Washington D.C. hosted a reception on June 15 in honor of my father, Bedros Sevadjian, jeweler and silversmith “By Appointment to His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia” (see “Jeweler to an Emperor: [more...]

July 18, 2017 // 8 Comments

Hamazkayin Artlinks 2017: Exploring Armenian Identity through Culture

Special for the Armenian Weekly WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (A.W.)—Students and young professionals, 26 in all, gathered at AYF Camp in Wrightwood, Calif., on June 29 for the third annual Hamazkayin ArtLinks, a four-day arts retreat organized by the Hamazkayin Western Region, Eastern Region, and Canada [more...]

July 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Armenian Who Helped Create Today’s Turkish Language

Special for the Armenian Weekly “Turkey’s president wants to purge Western words from its language,” reported The Economist on June 15. [Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s] latest purge has a more abstract target. Mr. Erdoğan wants to rid Turkish of unsightly Western loan-words. Turkey faces a [more...]

July 11, 2017 // 10 Comments

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