Ariana Maral Nigoghosian Receives Daughters of Vartan 2021 Zabelle Chapter...
DETROIT — The Daughters of Vartan value the importance of recognizing the academic accomplishments of Armenian college students. This year the Zabelle Chapter awarded the Merit Scholarship for an...
View ArticleHarry S. Cherken Jr. Appointed Honorary Consul of Republic of Armenia for...
PHILADELPHIA — Harry Sarkis Cherken Jr., senior counsel in the international law firm of Faegre Drinker, has been appointed honorary consul of Armenia for the Greater Philadelphia area. As honorary...
View Article‘Cliffs of Freedom’ Now Available on Apple TV, Amazon & Google Play
To celebrate the bicentennial of Greece’s Revolutionary War, the National Hellenic Society (NHS) announced recently that the film “Cliffs of Freedom” is now available to watch on major platforms...
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Ars Musica Winds Up Concert Tour of Armenia
ECHMIADZIN — The members of Ars Musica agreed that the musical and cultural highpoint of their extensive visit was the final event. The renowned men’s chorus from Thuringia, Germany, was concluding a...
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Woes of Capitalism in Armenia Exposed in Markar Melkonian’s Book The Wrong Train
The attention of Armenians worldwide is focused understandably on Armenia and Artsakh’s tense relations with Azerbaijan at present. Markar Melkonian, with a book published in 2020 prior to the war,...
View ArticleA Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk
By Joshua Barone BAYREUTH, Germany (New York Times) — Asmik Grigorian was hungry after all. The soprano, whose debut at the Bayreuth Festival the evening before had been met with a roaring ovation,...
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Home Again: Mari’s Firkatian’s Winning Recipe: Add One Part History, One Part...
On one end of the culinary spectrum, traditional cookbooks are often a hodgepodge of recipes arranged by ingredient (a particular meat or spice), meal type (breakfast or dinner, appetizer or dessert)...
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Bay Area Teen Creates Club to Tutor Refugees from Afghanistan and Beyond
By Dion Lim REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) — As the refugee crisis in Afghanistan continues, a group of young people in the Bay Area are doing their part of helping refugees from many different countries...
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Goldie Nakashian’s Koulenje from Gesaria (Kayseri)
WATERTOWN — This recipe from Janice Okoomian is featured at the Armenian Museum of America website. Janice, a professor of English/Gender & Women’s Studies at Rhode Island College, contributed this...
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COAF Opens New Child and Family Services Center in Rural Armenia
YEREVAN — Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) secures rural access to social welfare with the opening of its cutting-edge Child and Family Services Center (CFSC) in Hatisk village (Armavir region) on...
View Article30th Anniversary of Armenia’s Independence an Occasion Neither to Laugh Nor...
The second part of this headline has been borrowed from Rev. Abraham Hartunian’s memoirs on the Genocide, Neither to Laugh Nor to Weep, because it reflects and defines the mood in Armenia today. In...
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Iranian Trucks Entering Armenia Stopped By Azerbaijan
YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Azerbaijani forces have set up a checkpoint to stop and reportedly tax Iranian commercial trucks using a strategic road that passes through areas along southeastern Syunik...
View ArticleOn Jerusalem and Transparency
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is in a difficult position and is beset on all sides. Both Israelis and Arabs have their eyes on the valuable real estate owned by the patriarchate. The local...
View ArticleNew Controversy Looms in Jerusalem Over Land Leased by the Patriarchate
As if Armenians did not have enough problems these days with the disastrous developments in Artsakh, we are now faced with a new controversy in the Diaspora. I have received dozens of phone calls and...
View ArticleJerusalem Armenian Patriarchate Official Comments on New Land Lease
JERUSALEM — The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is a major property-owner in Jerusalem. Recently a controversy was sparked about plans of the Patriarchate to lease a piece of property for 99 years...
View ArticleSobering Reflections upon the 30th Anniversary of Independence of the...
By Dr. Arshavir Gundjian C.M. On September 21, Armenia and all Armenians mark the historic cornerstone of the 30th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Armenia, which was declared in...
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French Journalist Jean-Christophe Buisson Targeted by Ambassador of Azerbaijan
PARIS – Since the start of the premeditated aggression by Turkish-Azerbaijani forces on Artsakh territory, French journalist Jean-Christophe Buisson, deputy director of Le Figaro magazine, the most...
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Celeste Nazeli Snowber: Writer, Dancer and Choreographer
YEREVAN / VANCOUVER, Canada — Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD, is a performer, poet, professor, speaker, dancer, writer and award-winning educator. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon...
View ArticleTUMO Announces $50 Million ‘TUMO Armenia’ Campaign to Extend Its Learning...
YEREVAN — Marking TUMO’s 10 year anniversary and the inauguration of the new TUMO Gyumri building, the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies this week announced a five year, $50 million initiative to...
View ArticleFresno State Armenian Series Publishes New Book on Committee of Union and...
FRESNO — The Armenian Studies Program announced the publication of its latest book, The Committee of Union and Progress: Founders, Ideology, and Structure, Volume 13 in the Armenian Series of The Press...
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