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A Nation, Distracted
A protester during an anti-Trump travel ban march in London. (Photo: Alisdare Hickson/Flickr, February 4, 2017) Since leaving the Weekly, I have kept relatively quiet on issues related to Armenian and...
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AYF-ER’s “Arev” Chapter Rising From the Ashes
Michael Mamikonyan, Arden Boyajian, Alec Samra, Zoya Panosyan, Tamar Kassarjian, Vartiter Vardanyan, Celia Boyajian, Milena Shakhnazaryan, Christina Manvelyan and Hamlet Panosyan during one of their...
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Detroit’s ARS Zavarian School Celebrates Christmas
DETROIT, Mich.—The ARS Zavarian School’s traditional Christmas party was held on December 20, 2019 at the Orchard Lake Middle School auditorium. Rev. Fr. Hrant Kevorkian, ARS members, parents and...
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Armenia Monitoring Ongoing US-Iran Tensions Following Airstrike
YEREVAN—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for level heads to prevail as tensions in the region flared over the death of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in last week’s US...
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Overlooked: The Armenian Greta Thunberg who Spent Six Days in Jail
Arshak Makichyan (Photo: Twitter/@Makichyan) Just days before Christmas, a Russian court sentenced a young climate activist to six days in jail for participating in a climate change demonstration in...
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Call for AYF Internship Applications
The Armenian Youth Federation, Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (AYF-YOARF) Eastern United States would like to announce that the Intern application for the 2020 AYF...
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Call for AYF Internship Director Applications
2019 AYF Internship Director Sahak Zakarian pictured fourth from the left with AYF interns in Arajamugh The Armenian Youth Federation Youth Organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation...
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Zoravik to Commemorate Anniversary of Hrant Dink Assassination with Film...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— To commemorate the thirteenth anniversary of the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, Zoravik will be presenting a screening of a film about Hrant Dink...
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Why is Our Church Silent on Women’s Issues?
Armenians are a proud but at times myopic people. We love to focus on the foundations of our culture, our faith, our food, our resiliency, our values, but we have trouble with our problems. The issue...
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Homenetmen Boston Family Keeps Caroling Tradition Alive
WATERTOWN, Mass.—Homenetmen (HMEM) scouts traveled door-to-door caroling in Armenian homes throughout the suburban neighborhoods of Greater Boston on Sunday evening in celebration of Armenian...
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Knarig
Click to view slideshow. There she was standing before me—Knarig—the woman who would be my host mom for the next two months in Armenia. She was a short, thin, middle-aged woman, with short black hair...
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Population Matters
The matter of how many people live on Armenian controlled land has been something I’ve wanted to address for quite some time. Yerevan’s recently enacted increase in benefits to families having more...
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Special Places: My Little Armenia
The Weekly is once again proud to feature Cambridge-based artist, children’s book author and St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School teacher Alik Arzoumanian. She recently submitted this delightfully...
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MIT Professor Areg Danagoulian and Colleagues Voted 2019 Arms Control Persons...
Dr. Areg Danagoulian and colleagues at MIT developed an innovative new nuclear disarmament verification process using neutron beams. WASHINGTON, DC—Professor Areg Danagoulian and colleagues at the...
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Dr. Ohannes Kilicdagi Appointed the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting...
Dr. Ohannes Kilicdagi NEW YORK, NY—Dr. Ohannes Kilicdagi has been appointed the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at...
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Border Community Students of Tavush Prosper in Renovated School
NERKIN KARMIR AGHBYUR, Tavush—With the completion of the reconstruction at the secondary school in the large border village of Nerkin Karmir Aghbyur in Armenia’s Tavush region, students are...
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Turkey Eliminated its Minorities from the Economy with Exorbitant Taxes
After the near total physical elimination of the minorities from the Ottoman Empire 1915-23, the Turkish government embarked in 1941 on the financial ruin of the remaining Armenians, Greeks, Jews and a...
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SOAR to Host 15th Anniversary Celebration
Founded in 2005, the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) is the only charitable organization whose singular mission is to provide humanitarian assistance to orphaned Armenians around the world....
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Risks and Opportunities in Planting Millions of New Trees in Armenia
ATP produces more than 50 species of native trees in its nurseries, in close proximity to planting sites. Armenia Tree Project (ATP) and AUA’s Acopian Center for the Environment recently conducted the...
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AIWA’s Zabel Yessayan Book Recommended in the NY Times
NEW YORK, NY–A book published by the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) was highly recommended by Turkish novelist Elif Shafak in an interview appearing in the December 26, 2019, issue...
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