Malkhas Amoyan, Arsen Harutyunyan strike wrestling gold at Euro Championships
Fourteen competitors representing Armenia participated at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships in Hungary this week. Half of them went home with medals. Arsen Harutyunyan and Malkhas Amoyan were...
View ArticleGayane Grigoryan: An Artsakh Mother’s Story of Love, Loss and Finding Home
There are human stories which should be told, published and even screened to demonstrate the will and power of an ordinary person being capable of fighting and winning. Stories revealing such...
View ArticleDr. Asya Darbinyan returning to Clark University as visiting professor in...
Dr. Asya Darbinyan Exactly nine years since being invited to join the Strassler Center’s doctoral program at Clark University, Dr. Asya Darbinyan is “delighted and honored” to be returning as visiting...
View ArticleRobert Kerbeck and His Big Armenian Secret
Robert Kerbeck Robert Kerbeck is the author of the brand new true crime memoir RU$E: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street about his career as an actor turned corporate spy. The...
View ArticleAYF DC, Kapan share dreams for the homeland
Last summer – like my every summer – I spent several weeks in my family’s ancestral Artsvanik village located in Armenia’s southern Syunik Province. There, I met and worked with children my age, some...
View ArticleParanoid Ottoman Sultans murdered their brothers to secure their throne
The entry of Sultan Mehmed II into Constantinople, painting by Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929) (Photo: Public Domain) We all know that the Ottoman army invaded many countries with utter savagery. We also...
View ArticlePashinyan, Aliyev agree to peace talks
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, European Council President Charles Michel and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels (RA Government, April 6) Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s...
View ArticleArmenian rock band Lav Eli announces east coast concert tour
Lav Eli (Photo: Facebook) CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The popular Armenian rock band Lav Eli has announced a concert tour of select US east coast cities this spring. The tour will kick off in Richmond, VA on April...
View ArticlePhotographer Winslow Martin to present ‘We Wait For Your Return: A Love...
Collecting flowers near a tank commemorating the Armenian army’s victory over Azerbaijan in Shushi, Nagorno Karabagh, on May 9th, 1992 (Photo: Winslow Martin/‘We Wait For Your Return: A Love Letter to...
View ArticleIt started in 1915, but it has never really ended
Protest against Azerbaijani aggression, October 2020, Boston (Photo: Knar Bedian) Here’s a memo to the Armenian nation on the occasion of the 107th year of the start of the Armenian Genocide: we need...
View ArticleInternational Armenian Literary Alliance announces the 2022 Young Armenian...
The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) has announced the second annual Young Armenian Poets Awards, a contest for emerging Armenian writers between the ages of 14 and 18. This year’s...
View ArticleThe Weekly’s Lillian Avedian to deliver keynote address at Connecticut...
Lillian Avedian NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—On Saturday, April 23, the Connecticut Armenian Genocide Commemoration Committee will present a program remembering the 107th anniversary of the beginning of the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Dickran Toumajan
Dickran Toumajan (1945 – 2022) Dickran Toumajan entered into eternal rest, surrounded by family, on Thursday morning, April 7, 2022 after a short battle with cancer. A loving husband, father,...
View ArticleAYF chapters, local ANCs invite tri-state community to march and demand...
NEW YORK, NY- The Armenian Youth Federation Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (AYF-YOARF) New York “Hyortik,” Manhattan “Moush,” and New Jersey “Arsen” chapters, in...
View ArticleThe April 6 meeting of Pashinyan and Aliyev in Brussels: What next
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, European Council President Charles Michel and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels (RA Government, April 6) On April 6, 2022, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...
View ArticleBook Review | Delia: A Survivor’s Story
On April 2, 2022, almost 20 months after the Beirut Port blast which devastated Lebanon’s capital Beirut, I attended a book launch at Aaliya’s Books for Delia: A Survivor’s Story by Ariana Papazian....
View ArticleHe is Risen!
The Resurrection of Christ, Jacopo Robusti, Tintoretto, Oil on canvas. 350 x 230 cm. 1565, San Cassiano, Venice. (Photo: Lluís Ribes Mateu/Flickr) These were the words of the two angels to the faithful...
View ArticleMy Dad
Kristi Rendahl and her father Editor’s Note: The following is the eulogy offered by Kristi Rendahl at the April 9 funeral for her beloved father, David Allan Rendahl. My brilliant and beautiful dad...
View ArticleBoston AYF to lead Armenian Genocide march and demonstration
Meghri Dervartanian leading an April 2019 protest in Harvard Square (Photo: Knar Bedian) BOSTON, Mass. – The Greater Boston “Nejdeh” Chapter of the AYF-YOARF invites the Greater Boston community to its...
View ArticleAYF-ER hosts Special Convention, presents Central Executive
AYF-ER hosts Special Convention, April 10, 2022 PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A Special Convention of the Armenian Youth Federation-Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (AYF-YOARF) Eastern...
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