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Our Land: Finding My Family’s Village in Western Armenia
This is a sequel, long overdue, to my piece Mascots and Flags: Thoughts from a Genocide Amusement Park. That piece was written in a couple of hours, fueled by the raw horror of finding my family’s...
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The Legacy of Khrimian Hayrik: Education and Enlightenment
Khrimian Hayrik sometime before 1903 (Photo: S. Soghomonyan) “Dear and blessed Armenians, villagers, when you return to the fatherland, as a gift, one by one, get your friend and relative a gun, get a...
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My Grandfather’s Story
I recently spoke with a friend of mine. I learned that he is working on ‘triage’ at a Boston hospital in this pandemic. I didn’t know what that meant and looked it up. It read “the assignment of...
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Rest in peace Armenian martyrs. You will be beatified.
Genocide Memorial, April 23, 2020 (Official photo: Government of Armenia) Today, we are not the descendants of the Genocide survivors. We are the direct victims of the Genocide. We are living in agony...
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The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) has expressed its concern over statements made by the Russian Foreign Minister this week at the current juncture of the Artsakh (Karabakh)...
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Lavrov Calls for ‘Liberating’ Lands, Yerevan Says ‘No Concessions’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan held Joint Press Conference, Moscow, June 7, 2018 (Photo: Flickr/МИД России) (ASBAREZ)—As the foreign ministers...
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Commemorative Events for the 105th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Dear Compatriots, Due to the conditions of the state of emergency, the events dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be held in a different format. On April 24, we will all...
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Daughter of Genocide
Mother Arising Out of the Ashes, Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan, Armenia (Photo: Serouj Ourishian/Wikimedia Commons) Yet alive, I shall not let fall my apricot sun never will I...
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Songs of Comfort
I’m watching on a small screen in my hand. A man in his bedroom in Brooklyn, with his back turned to the camera, is playing Komitas on his violin while looking outside of his window. It’s “The Crane”...
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High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs on the 105th Anniversary of the...
High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, April 24, 2020 (Photo: Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs) Dear compatriots,...
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Musicians Aram Bajakian, Alan Semerdjian Release ‘The Serpent and The Crane’
The newest contribution to the ongoing conversation about the Armenian Genocide and its effect on the generations that came after is here in the form of an evocative poetry and music collaboration...
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President Trump Tightens Turkey’s Grip over White House Policy on the...
President Trump continued to enforce Turkey’s gag-rule on honest U.S. remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, with his annual April 24th statement failing to properly condemn this crime. WASHINGTON, DC –...
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Congresswoman Katherine Clark (MA-5) on the 105th Anniversary of the Armenian...
Congresswoman Katherine Clark “As we mark the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, we must both recognize this dark time in our world’s history and renew our commitment to never let atrocities...
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Nvak Releases Komitas Album “I Cannot Come Out and Play”
NEW YORK, NY—Nvak, a music education non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating young global musical talent, has released an Armenian folk album from its collective of singer-songwriters. The...
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Carrying Genocide
The original perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide are now long gone, and so are my ancestors, yet denial still persists. Branches on our family tree never even had the chance to burgeon and grow....
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Armenia marks 105th Genocide anniversary under lockdown
YEREVAN—Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan led an official procession at Dzidzernagapert in Yerevan this morning, commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide with his wife Anna...
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Lowell Armenian Community Remembers the Armenian Genocide
Armenian flag raised at Lowell City Hall. LOWELL, Mass.—The 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated in Lowell on Friday, April 24 with the raising of the Armenian flag at Lowell...
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Chicago Armenians Protest Turkish Genocide Denial Despite Pandemic
Protesters led by the Chicago ARF standing in front of the famed Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago, Illinois, April 24, 2020 CHICAGO, Ill. —A small group of protesters commemorated...
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2020 Aurora Humanitarians Announced
2020 Aurora Humanitarians YEREVAN—On April 24, 2020, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative hosted an online discussion to honor those who perished a century ago and...
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St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School Participates in Virtual...
WATERTOWN, Mass.—St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School’s (SSAES) annual pilgrimage to the Massachusetts State House to commemorate the Armenian Genocide did not occur this year due to the COVID-19...
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