The year 2020 welcomes the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Relief Society (ARS), as well as a new threat to the Armenian community by way of COVID-19. The Armenian Weekly recently sat down with ARS […]
Photos by Salbe A. Photography CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— The Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Cambridge “Shushi” Chapter hosted over 170 guests at its sold-out Poon Paregentan Masquerade Ball fundraiser for Syria and Lebanon Relief on Saturday at […]
The Syrian people were the first to be aware of the Armenian Genocide as tens of thousands of Armenians were deported by Ottoman Turkey to the killing fields of the Syrian Desert at the beginning […]
(AW/Asbarez)—Syria’s parliament has recognized the Armenian Genocide. On Thursday, lawmakers voted to adopt the resolution, formalizing the government’s earlier commemoration of the victims who perished in the 1915 tragedy under the Ottoman Empire. The resolution […]
YEREVAN—The Los-Angeles/Berlin based non-profit Hakawati (storyteller, Arabic) has announced that it will be cooperating with the Sundance Institute and Film Independent to organize and launch a two-month comprehensive filmmaking lab for those impacted by the […]
In December 2019, the news media published the story of a 16 year-old boy who died last May in US immigration custody. Surveillance video showed Customs and Border Protection officials lying about the cause of […]
The Opening Over the course of ten months in 2014-2015, I traveled to Turkey three times. I went to reconnect with the land where my grandparents had been born and the places they had fled—my […]
It is difficult to know where to start commenting on the ridiculous press conference between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US Pres. Donald Trump at the White House on November 13, 2019. Unfortunately, we […]
YEREVAN—The Armenian government has condemned the murders of two Armenians, including a priest, on Monday in Syria’s Der-El-Zor province. Father Hovsep Bedoyan, the parish priest for the Armenian Catholic community in the northern Syrian city […]
Anytime Pres. Trump talks to another head of state on the phone, we can expect a disastrous outcome. Trump does not realize the consequences of his decisions on the United States and the world. He […]
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