Will You Stand With Me?
Stephanie Mangioglu participating in the New York City protest on October 10, 2020 What kind of society do we live in? Where a fly gets more attention? Than when a genocide gets resurrected? And bombs...
View ArticleBREAKING: Library of Congress Corrects “Armenian Massacres” Subject Heading...
WASHINGTON, DC – A campaign – launched by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and strongly backed by key Congressional allies – resulted, this week, in a determination by the Librarian of...
View ArticleThe Struggle for Artsakh: Civilization Against Tyranny
Editor’s Note: The following was a speech delivered by the author at a rally outside Worcester City Hall on Friday, October 16. Rally in Worcester, Mass., October 16, 2020 (Photo: Nooshig Varjabedian)...
View ArticleA conversation with my fellow Armenian Americans: The “Titanic Syndrome”
It was around 8:00 a.m. Worries, imagined and real, had kept me from getting any sleep the night before. I had to get out of the house for a walk. I needed air. I needed to clear my head, before...
View Article“No diplomatic solution” for Artsakh, says PM Nikol Pashinyan
YEREVAN—“The Karabakh issue, at least at this stage, has no diplomatic solution,” announced Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in a Facebook Live address to the nation. The statement comes after last...
View ArticleDeranian’s book on the Armenian Orphan Rug in Translation
Click to view slideshow. In 2013 the Armenian Cultural Foundation published President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug by Dr. H. Martin Deranian. The result of over three decades of research...
View ArticleWords for Peace
(Photo: Armenian Unified Infocenter, October 6, 2020) I never thought I would purposefully learn war vocabulary. Smerch rockets, kamikaze, ballistic missiles, UAVs. The list is long, my eyes are tired,...
View ArticlePreparing the Diaspora for the Marathon
This is different. Yes, many of us were alive for the liberation war of Artsakh from 1991 to 1994. Same enemy. Same evil intent, but so many differences. During that time, social media either did not...
View ArticleSenator Markey Makes Case for US Recognition of Artsakh Republic
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) has said that “the international community will be left with no choice but to move to recognize the independence of the Republic of Artsakh” if Azerbaijan...
View ArticleCOAF Rendering Critical Assistance During Crisis in Armenia
Click to view slideshow. The brutal attack on the Republic of Artsakh launched by Azerbaijan on September 27 has become a war of survival for the Armenian people and a direct existential threat to the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the World Citizens of Good Faith
Ghazanchetsots Cathedral was bombed by Azeri forces on October 8, 2020 (Photo: Armenian Unified Infocenter) “When God, who is forever free, Breathed life into my earthly frame… A babe upon my mother’s...
View Article200 American Fulbright Scholars call for Artsakh’s right to...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Photo: Twitter, October 21, 2020) October 22, 2020 The Honorable Michael R. Pompeo Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Washington, DC Dear Mr. Secretary,...
View ArticleArmenia’s Fight Against Azerbaijan, COVID-19 Intensifies
Life in an underground shelter in Shushi (Photo: Government of Armenia, October 22) As the international community awaits with bated breath the results of a diplomatic attempt in Washington DC, Armenia...
View ArticleANCA Welcomes Menendez Resolutions Requiring Review of Turkey and...
Click to view slideshow. WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introduced two powerful resolutions calling on the State Department to report about...
View ArticleHistoric Worcester Community Rallies for Artsakh
Click to view slideshow. WORCESTER, Mass.—Over 300 Armenians from America’s oldest Armenian community braved the pouring rain and came together outside Worcester City Hall on Friday to protest against...
View ArticleANCA Welcomes Pallone Resolution Calling for International Recognition of...
Congressional Armenian Caucus Founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) offering remarks at a special session of the Republic of Artsakh Parliament in 2017. WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional Armenian Caucus...
View ArticleIALA’s Open Letter Against War in Artsakh
On September 27th, Azerbaijan, encouraged and aided by Turkey, launched a massive assault on Nagorno Karabakh, an ethnically Armenian enclave known to Armenians as Artsakh. For over three weeks,...
View ArticleJoint Statement Calling for the International Recognition of the Republic of...
(Original graphic created by former Weekly editor and current h-pem editor Rupen Janbazian) Since Azerbaijan refuses to pursue good-faith diplomatic negotiations to end the current humanitarian crisis...
View ArticleARF Eastern US Sends Over 5,000 pounds of Medical Supplies to Yerevan
Click to view slideshow. By Sossi Essajanian NEW JERSEY—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Eastern United States Central Committee (ARF Eastern US CC) is leading a regional initiative to collect...
View ArticleOver 50 US House Members Call for Sanctions on President Aliyev, Azerbaijani...
WASHINGTON, DC – As US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepared to meet with Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov earlier today, over 50 US House members called for crippling sanctions against...
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