WASHINGTON, DC—Half the U.S. Senators and three of the four US Representatives running for President have co-sponsored legislation to lock in official US recognition and permanent remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. With Senator Bernie Sanders’ […]
My Name is Revenge: A Novella and Collected Essays Ashley Kalagian Blunt Spineless Wonders, 2019 156 pp. I have three criteria for judging a book. First, it must follow the “show not tell” principle; I […]
This is one of those good/bad news situations. The online talk show (formerly a radio program) named “The Young Turks” (henceforth TYT to save ink and pixels) hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian has […]
While most of those fleeing Syria are in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, several thousand have also gone to Armenia. In fact, compared to stories about asylum seekers in Europe or the Middle East, Armenia has […]
In recent years and months, Arab countries have been liberating themselves from the nefarious political influence of the Turkish government and are beginning to take an honest position on the Armenian Genocide. The Arab governments, […]
The Ruins of Ani Krikor Balakian Translated and with an introduction by Peter Balakian and Aram Arkun New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2019 pp.121. The new edition of The Ruins of Ani by […]
I thought this would be the best way to “honor” him on the occasion of his May 19th birthday. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, how grandiose, how pathetic, how sad, how destructive, […]
The Zoryan Institute and the American University of Armenia (AUA) have announced the launch of the Zoryan Institute and AUA Center for Oral History. The Zoryan Institute will be depositing copies of its renowned Armenian […]
For over half a century, the story of Komitas, who ended his life in a psychiatric institution after a prolific career as a composer, became a symbol of trauma of the Armenian Genocide. The very […]
THESSALONIKI, Greece—In recent years, scholars have increasingly approached the destruction of Christians in the final years of the Ottoman Empire comparatively, exploring the continuities, similarities in the destruction of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians from the […]
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