Making ‘The Armenian Highland’
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish Airlines plane and walked across the tarmac. Each of them wore camo and each of […]
GLENVIEW, Ill.—The Chicago Armenian community marked the 36th anniversary of the Lisbon Five on Sunday during an event organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Chicago “Christapor” Gomideh. In his opening remarks, Armen Papazian described […]
GLENVIEW, Ill.—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Christapor gomidyutiun of Chicago hosted the 101st anniversary of Armenia’s first independence with hundreds in attendance on June 2. Over the past decade, the Chicago ARF has celebrated […]
Matthew Karanian was about eight years old when he asked for his first camera—a vintage Brownie from his father. “Back then, we were using film,” he recalled one afternoon during a visit to the Hairenik […]
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities 1894-1924 Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi 2019 656 pages, Harvard University Press $24.74, hardcover We Armenians have reached a point in the history of our nation when […]
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 […]
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