1+ week, 2+ day ago   (567+ words) On June 10, filmmaker Bared Maronian hosted a focus group screening for his new documentary “Genocide 2.0.” Gathered at West Newton Cinema in Newton, Massachusetts was the group of about 100 Armenians and non-Armenians with diverse backgrounds, professions and ages. Based in Florida,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (590+ words) In contemporary Armenian discourse, few topics evoke as much raw emotion, deep-seated anxiety, and rigid gatekeeping as the state of the ‘mother tongue.’ For generations, speakers and learners of (Western) Armenian have been instructed to treat their language as a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1324+ words) Measured against the conditions from which these communities emerged, this was an extraordinary achievement. But institutions created to resist disappearance now confront a different problem: what happens when survival itself is no longer enough to sustain collective identity? Together, these…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (982+ words) “The incorporation of the gender perspective into the study of the Armenian Genocide made it possible to understand that genocidal violence did not affect the entire population in the same way,” said Boulgourdjian. Men were often targeted first, especially those…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (310+ words) Born and raised in the village of Kasakh in the Kotayk region, Smbatyan is a fashion designer by profession who initially taught herself embroidery and studied Armenian carpets independently. “Then I realized I knew nothing about those ornaments and needed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (659+ words) The Armenian Weekly...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (123+ words) Last week, I exposed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s totally false statement: “Our history contains no genocide, no massacres, no oppression, and no colonialism. Throughout our thousands of years of glorious history, there has been only justice and compassion.” To…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (261+ words) Haigazian University Press and Hairenik Press have launched the Armenian Memory Book Series with the publication of “My Native Village: Okhou” by Parounag Topalian, bringing a landmark tradition of Armenian historical and cultural memory to new generations of readers. Beyond…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (369+ words) Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is crossing all permissible red lines, exceeding every limit on his power. In the past eight years, Pashinyan has violated hundreds of laws and multiple provisions of the constitution. Meanwhile, a large number of Armenians have…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (242+ words) One hundred years after my grandfather Nishan Paparian of Kharpert, stepped onto Ellis Island, his descendants still carry the unfinished business of survival. We return to Armenia, stand before Ararat, and remember that the genocide did not end in 1915. It…...