Think of major trading ports in the 16th and 17th centuries, and you can be sure Armenian merchants visited them. One such port was Malacca (Melaka) in Malaysia. With its historic city center, listed as […]
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 […]
YEREVAN—The Freedom Fighters committee of the ARF Supreme Council of Armenia and the ARF Nigol Aghpalian Student Association created a miniature model map depicting the 1992 liberation of Shushi. The miniature map was displayed near […]
Keynote speaker and ARF Bureau member Aram Kaloustian delivered the following remarks at the Armenian Genocide Commemoration held at the Montebello Martyrs Monument on April 23, 2019. We are gathered here today to commemorate the […]
On April 24, 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had Armenians on his mind. He railed and cajoled, and spared no form of communication—a speech, a letter and a barrage of tweets—to stay afloat on […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For the third year, President Donald Trump failed to properly condemn as ‘genocide’ the Ottoman Turkish government’s annihilation of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans and other Christians in his annual April 24th commemorative […]
The Armenian Highland: Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic of 1918 312 pages Stone Garden Press (2019) Matthew Karanian is well known for his stunning photography books on Armenia, the Caucasus and eastern Turkey. […]
Every year in April, Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which is still denied by Turkey and remains unrecognized by the US government. There are marches in Los Angeles and […]
In recent years, it has become somewhat fashionable to pooh-pooh, demean, argue against or perceive conspiracies in efforts to obtain recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States. I, too, may have contributed to […]
During April 2019 the Belmont, Massachusetts Public Library is displaying a selection of books, DVDs and CDs on the Armenian Genocide and Armenian history and culture. Library Director Peter Struzziero and his staff facilitated the […]
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