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Confronting defamation starts with looking in the mirror
A new front in the ongoing Azeri/Turkish assault on Armenians has taken the form of a deceitful defamation campaign. Their plan is crystal clear. The question we should focus on is: “Are we ready to...
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Author James Robbins to discuss book on Australia, New Zealand and the...
BELMONT, Mass.—The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) and the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) will present a webinar with author James Robins who will discuss his recent...
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Major research on Diaspora public opinion relaunched
LONDON—The Diaspora survey will be carried out this Spring in Armenian communities in Britain (London, Manchester, Birmingham), Paris and its environs, Belgium (Brussels and Antwerp) and Rostov-on-Don,...
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The MET’s Helen Evans and Berj Najarian of the New England Patriots join...
WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Armenian Museum of America is proud to announce that Dr. Helen C. Evans—Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—has joined its...
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Dink family: court’s verdict in 2007 assassination is “long way from the truth”
Hrant Dink ISTANBUL, Turkey—The family of slain journalist Hrant Dink is unsatisfied with a Turkish court’s decision to sentence four former public officials to life in prison for their role in the...
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Armenian Martyrs’ Memorial Committee of RI to commemorate 106th anniversary...
Armenian Martyrs’ Memorial Monument, North Burial Ground, Providence, RI PROVIDENCE, RI—On Sunday, April 25, the Armenian Martyrs’ Memorial Committee will be commemorating the 106th anniversary of the...
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In Memory of Anahid Joubanian
Anahid Joubanian (1934 – 2021) Anahid Joubanian passed away peacefully at home after a short illness on Saturday, March 27, 2021. She was 87 years old. Born March 8, 1934 in Aleppo, Syria to Aram and...
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St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School launches virtual speaker series
WATERTOWN, Mass.—St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School (SSAES) has launched a virtual speaker series called SSAES Alumni RoundTable. The first event was held on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Moving...
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In Memory of Kris Hagopian
Kris V. Hagopian Kris V. Hagopian of Watertown, Massachusetts passed away unexpectedly on March 27, 2021. Beloved son of Shake Hagopian and the late Vahram Hagopian. Devoted brother of Ani Hagopian....
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Sign up for AYF Junior Seminar today!
The 2021 Junior Seminar Council is excited to announce that Junior Seminar will take place on June 5-6. Almost a year after AYF history’s first ever virtual Junior Seminar, the 2021 council thought...
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Azerbaijan betrays Israel at the UN
For three decades, the government of Israel and Jewish-American leaders have been showering Azerbaijan with excessive and undeserved praise for its alleged tolerance for its Jewish community and...
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Book Review | Bible Engagement: The Discovery of Faith, Hope and Self
Bible Engagement: The Discovery of Faith, Hope and Self Dr. Hrayr Jebejian Lebanon: Bible Society in the Gulf, 2019 138 pp. Hardcover Dr. Hrayr Jebejian’s lively and well-organized study Bible...
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Detroit’s Friends of Artsakh sends medical supplies for wounded soldiers in...
Click to view slideshow. DETROIT, Mich.—On March 19, 2021, Detroit’s Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) Seniors and Juniors packed up medical supplies in a large container to be sent to Armenia to assist...
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ANCA Washington, DC summer internship application deadline extended to April 15
Join the hundreds of university students who have gotten hands-on Armenian American advocacy training through the ANCA Leo Sarkisian and Maral Melkonian Avetisyan Internship programs. WASHINGTON, DC —...
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One Day in Hayasdan
Intact branches of an Armenian apricot tree and her freshly shorn sisters (Photo: Elise Youssoufian) “A world of grief and pain Flowers bloom Even then” ~Kobayashi Issa (b. 1763, Japan) i. In one hand...
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The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation...
The Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has launched the “Creative Culture Program” in Lebanon. The program, which started in February of 2020, aims to promote...
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Our faith in the Resurrection will bring one to Armenia
Haghpat Monastery in springtime, 2015 (Photo: Raffi Youredjian/Flickr) The emergence of spring each year ushers in a season of hope. For those of us in four season climates, springtime represents the...
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No Greater Love
It was the third day of the Artsakh War, a sunny Tuesday morning about 6:30 AM. A scream sliced the still, autumn air. A mother’s voice – my neighbor’s voice – protested the world’s indifference to her...
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On the Threshold of the 106th Commemoration of the Genocide
Sp. Diramayr, or Sp. Dirouhi, in the village of Khoshmat, Palu region, May 2012 (Photo: George Aghjayan) Along the millennia that Armenia’s history has covered, a mere century may easily pass...
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Cultural cleansing in occupied Artsakh
The BBC has documented the total destruction of a 19th-century Armenian church in the latest recorded incident of a systematic pattern of cultural genocide perpetrated by the Azerbaijani government...
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