Trauma

The Homeland

Two voices, one field: Shaping art therapy in Armenia

Art as healing: A story from Tatev Harutyunyan’s experience A 60-year-old woman entered psychotherapy with depression, psychosomatic headaches and a…

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Reflections

Providing the soil for a new voice

The weight of the word in a teenager’s mouth is a heavy thing … especially when that word is Armenian. …

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Opinion

Depatriation and the impossibility of turning the page on genocide

As April 24 has passed and Armenians have once again ascended the heights of Tsitsernakaberd, new and often contradictory theses…

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Commentary

Lonely together: Belonging, isolation and the aftermath of the genocide

April arrives with heaviness. It springs up in the tone of conversations, in the way Armenian names begin to circulate…

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Diaspora

“These stories live in us”: Srab Der Haroutounian on trauma, identity and Armenians in the UK

Srab Der Haroutounian, a Ph.D. candidate born and raised in the United Kingdom to Armenian parents, is examining the multigenerational…

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Literary Corner

Books as lifelines: Dr. Regine Muradian’s mission to heal and inspire children

When the 2020 Artsakh War displaced countless families, Dr. Regine Muradian turned her children’s book into a lifeline, donating all…

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Commentary

Why fiction became safer than truth in Armenian literature

Recently, on my grandfather’s 98th birthday, I asked him to tell me again about his parents’ escape during the Armenian…

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Commentary

The rise of the Online Armenian — and what we lose offline

When people ask me where I’m from, I never know how to answer in one clear sentence. My response depends…

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Op-Eds

Why the Armenian translation of ‘The Body Keeps the Score’ matters now

*Content warning: This article contains references to suicide and psychological trauma. The Armenian translation of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s…

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