In the documentary “100 Years from Home,” questions chart Lilit Pilikian and Jared White’s journey across the globe. “How do we get over these wounds?” Pilikian asks her mother over the phone, sitting in the […]
I had just arrived in Artsakh in the summer of 1995, when I heard the distinctive sound of soldiers marching behind me. As I turned around, a group of fresh-faced soldiers marched past me and […]
In 1924, Lousaper and Anna Kussajikian were reunited after years of painful separation through a photograph. The Kussajikian sisters were born in Marash in the Ottoman Empire and survived massacres that claimed the rest of […]
Tigranes the Great: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Empire June 2020, Heddon Publishing UK Political Biography/Ancient History ISBN: 978-1-913-166-24-3 174 pp. Tigranes the Great ruled the Kingdom of Armenia from 95 to 55 […]
Memory for numbers rarely fails me. I clearly remember a conversation I had with my dear friend, writer and art critic Telman Zurabyan (professor, historian and orientalist from Tbilisi, Georgia) 40 years ago. Speaking of […]
I just found a video in which two Turkish scholars are advocating for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Republic of Turkey. The discussion took place in 2015 on the 100th anniversary of […]
The ANCA Eastern Region’s Empowerment series continues with a lesson about the female fedayees who were instrumental in securing the future of the First Republic of Armenia. The term fedayee, derived from the Arabic word […]
Continuing the search for authenticity, truth and the origins of the world, I had to stop and study Trebizond. Trebizond comes from the word ‘Trapezous’, which in Greek means table – the table of abundance, […]
The High Advisory Board of the Turkish Presidency met last Tuesday for five hours to discuss how to respond “to groundless and anti-Turkey allegations” regarding the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The Advisory Board includes President […]
The Genocide perpetrated against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was both gender-oriented and age-oriented. While the Armenian male population was generally killed before or at the beginning of deportation, women and children, as well […]
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