Researching Your Armenian Roots During a Pandemic
Excerpt from Ermeniler: 1915 Öncesinde Osmanli Iparatorlugu’nda (Armenians in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of 1915) by Raymond Kevorkian and Paul Paboudjian Over the last two months, I have been...
View ArticleARF Bureau underscores demands for Pashinyan’s resignation, condemns...
Almost four months have passed since the latest Artsakh War. During this time, many of the critical problems emanating from the war and its aftermath not only have not dissipated, but rather have...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan
Foreign Minister Ara Ayvazyan The advent of a new U.S. Administration and the start of the 117th Session of the U.S. Congress, in the wake of Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s six-week war on Artsakh, mark an...
View ArticleAIWA launches 2021-2022 scholarship program, Eva & Jack Medzorian Endowment Fund
BOSTON, Mass.—The Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2021-2022 academic year. The deadline for submission is April 19, 2021. New this...
View ArticleMarch 1 triggers competing rallies in Yerevan
Protest led by the Homeland Salvation Movement, March 1, 2021 Armenia’s deepening political crisis continues to intensify following last week’s controversial calls for the resignation of PM Nikol...
View ArticleArmenia Tree Project: Lifting Villagers out of Poverty
ATP Backyard Nursery Program participant receives Christmas gift from ATP In 2020, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) purchased a total of 40,257 trees from its backyard nurseries in the villages of...
View ArticleOver 180 US House members call on Biden administration to take harder line...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH) were joined by 180 U.S. House Members urging the Biden-Harris Administration to prioritize human rights in its relations with Turkey. WASHINGTON, DC...
View ArticleGOALS announces Assarian Relief Initiative, creation of an Artsakh soccer league
Photo: Girls of Armenia Leadership Soccer (GOALS) YEREVAN—Girls of Armenia Leadership Soccer (GOALS) is excited to announce the launch of the Assarian Relief Initiative. The project, funded by longtime...
View ArticlePopulate Christian Artsakh
Christmas liturgy at Surp Astvatsamor Hovanu Cathedral, Artsakh, January 6, 2021 (Photo: MFA of Armenia/Twitter) It was not planned this way. But we know, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,...
View ArticleSocial Media Trends in the Armenian Community: Pre-Pandemic and Post War
Graphic created by Vivian Zohrabian via Canva In January 2019, there were 2.9 million social media users in Armenia. In one year that figure grew to 3.4 million, and by January 2021, it surpassed 4.5...
View ArticleDatev Gevorkian on Acoustics and preserving Armenian music
Datev Gevorkian is a budding musician who embraced music at a young age. Now, as a college student at Gordon University (Wenham, MA), he has realized that one day his ultimate responsibility as an...
View ArticleANCA-ER honors activists and friends, raises unprecedented $150,000 in...
WATERTOWN, Mass. – The Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) hailed its 2020 achievements and honored its longtime activists and friends last Thursday, February 25, 2021 at...
View ArticleMore Than Just a Map: Stratfor’s Map of Turkey’s Sphere of Influence 2050
George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, pp. 203 (Doubleday, 2009) “Stratfor” is an intelligence-based “research center” often described as the “shadow CIA” whose advisory...
View ArticleArmenia’s mounting political crisis
Various political factions have been locked in a standoff since the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia joined the ranks of the opposition forces demanding Prime Minister Nikol...
View ArticleArmmad: honoring Armenian roots, reviving ancient practices
Palig Mouradian, founder of armmad Palig Mouradian is reconnecting with her roots while unearthing medieval Armenian herbal remedies with armmad. “Through wars and massacres we lost our land, and we...
View ArticleKhojaly Lies and Hypocrisy
By Armen Carapetian, Charlene Theriault, Gary Zartarian and Marty Zartarian Every year in late February, some Azerbaijani American community leaders ask public officials to sign “Khojaly Remembrance...
View ArticleACAA Artsakh Fund: Committed to Ariavan’s Resilient Villagers
Nestled along the scenic Aghavno River and Lachin Corridor lies the village of Ariavan, also known as Aghavno. As Azerbaijan’s attacks against Artsakh intensified during the fall of 2020, most of the...
View ArticleIn Memory of Anita Terzian Titus
Anita Terzian Titus Anita Terzian Titus passed away from COVID-19 on January 20, 2021 at her home in Forest Hills, New York. Terzian was an internationally renowned mezzo-soprano opera singer. She...
View Article‘Unexploded’ Russian missiles in Artsakh cause political explosion in Armenia
The Iskander-E operational-tactical missile system (Photo: Russian Ministry of Defense, February 25, 2021) Words have meanings and consequences as PM Nikol Pashinyan found out when he told a journalist...
View ArticleA New War and the Need for a Truth Campaign
While the battle for Artsakh continues with the criminal Azeri regime and their Turkish overlords, we must consider this a pause between rounds of long term struggle. Armenia is in the midst of an...
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