The Forgotten Global Humanitarian Response While America’s response to the Armenian Genocide has in recent years gained increased attention thanks to well-researched literary works such as The Burning Tigris by Peter Balakian and The Starving […]
In recent years, a growing number of professionals from the newly independent Republic of Armenia have been settling in Malta. In 2009, a carved stone-cross (called a khatchkar in Armenian) was dedicated by the small […]
VAN (A.W.)–“Victory is in the realization of mad men’s dream…” This, written in big Armenian letters along with a photo of Akhtamar Island’s Holy Cross Church, ran on the front page of the local daily […]
A Forgotten International Humanitarian Relief Episode The devastation and immense human suffering caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti resulted in an enormous international humanitarian relief response. Japan once again found itself participating in a […]
Despite the fact that official U.S. acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide is still subject to the political currents of our time, Armenian Genocide education is included in the history curriculum of many U.S. schools. To […]
We are not going to negotiate over the right of the people of Artsakh [Karabagh] to self-determination. —Serge Sarkisian, President of the Republic of Armenia, June 1, 2010 It is for the people to determine […]
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 […]
From April 9-10, a groundbreaking academic workshop—titled “The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions”—took place in the Higgins University Center, Clark University. The workshop was organized by Taner […]
The Armenian Weekly April 2010 Magazine Over the past half millennium, genocide, slavery, Apartheid, mass rape, imperial conquest and occupation, aggressive war targeting non-combatants, population expulsions, and other mass human rights violations have proliferated. Individual […]
On March 10, Mariam Sukhudyan was awarded the U.S. Embassy of Armenia’s first ever Woman of Courage Award. In her speech, U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch commended Mariam for her environmental and civic activism: “[Mariam] […]
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