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CALIFORNIA APRIL 9 — “Orphans of the Genocide” Screening & Director Q&A, Thursday, at 7 p.m., The Florida Holocaust Museum, 55 5th Street South, St. Petersburg. Hear from South Florida film...
View ArticleFinal Plans for Boston Genocide Centennial Events
By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Massachusetts Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee, which includes representatives of most Armenian organizations in the state, held its...
View ArticleTCA Los Angeles Holds Annual Meeting
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – The Los Angeles chapter of the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) held its 45th annual meeting on March 15 at the Northridge home of Vahan and Maral Voskian, with 35 members in...
View ArticleOpera Legend Lucine Amara Feted at Surprise 90th Birthday
By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — From the moment legendary opera diva Lucine Amara walked in to her surprise 90th birthday party, to the last spirited and musical tributes, the event was a joyous and...
View ArticleHighest Church Holiday Marked with Great Pomp and Ceremony at Holy Echmiadzin
ECHMIADZIN — On April 5, the Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Jesus Christ was celebrated in the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin. Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians...
View ArticleArmenian Assembly of America Hosts Genocide Symposium in South Florida
WASHINGTON — On Saturday, March 14, the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) hosted an Armenian Genocide symposium entitled “A Century of Genocide: The 1915 Armenian Genocide and Its Lasting...
View ArticleBay Bridge Gets History Lesson
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Drivers taking the Bay Bridge to San Francisco will get some history with their commute in the form of a sign for the month of April. Armenians around the world are remembering...
View ArticleMgrdich Terlemezian-Avedisian: Travelers on the Road of the Great Dream
By Hagop Vartivarian Van, 1861 – Surp Partoghimeos, June 10, 1896 Childhood He was born in 1861 in Van. He received his elementary education in the parish school of Hangoysner. Afterwards, in 1879 he...
View ArticleYerazArt Foundation Fellows Winning Awards Around the Globe
BELMONT, Mass. — Since its inception almost a decade ago, the YerazArt Foundation has been identifying young, talented musicians from Armenia and helping them to reach their full artistic potential....
View ArticleGenocide Centennial Highlighted at AJC Diplomatic Seder
BOSTON — On Sunday, March 22, the American Jewish Committee of Boston (AJC) hosted their 16th annual Diplomatic Seder at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. The Seder brought together 450 guests,...
View ArticleHawaii State Senate Recognizes Armenian Genocide
HONOLULU, Hawaii (Asbarez) — Hawaii’s State Senate last week unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide and declaring April 24 as a day of remembrance and commemoration of the...
View ArticleOperation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
By Eric Bogosian Little, Brown and Company April 21, 2015 $28.00 Hardcover | ISBN 9780316292085 | In Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide, actor, novelist and...
View ArticleGetting to the Heart of Komitas
LONDON — Triumphs, conflicts and death camp; trauma and seclusion — readers can learn about the great musician Komitas Vartabed’s successful career and the crucial episodes in his extraordinary life in...
View Article‘If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?’
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach With these words Percy Bysshe Shelley concluded his “Ode to the West Wind,” and they serve as well to characterize the mood pervading the commemorations in Germany of the...
View Article‘The Big Death’: Finding Precise Terminology for the Murder of the Armenian...
By Matthias Bjørnlund From 1915, the Danish relief worker and teacher Karen Jeppe witnessed and experienced the Armenian Genocide first-hand in the Ottoman town of Urfa: the death marches, the...
View ArticleOperation Nemesis
By Eric Bogosian Eight years ago I made plans to write a screenplay based on Soghomon Tehlirian’s assassination of Talat Pasha in Berlin in 1921. The story seemed simple and perfect for film...
View ArticleTwo Stories of Genocide Survival
By Ruth Thomasian With 40 years of people showing me their photographs and telling me their stories, I present to you the photographs and stories of two early Project SAVE photo donors, both Genocide...
View ArticleA Family Defined by More than Survival
By Stephen Kurkjian Though it was more than two decades ago, I can still remember the moment when I connected with my Armenian identity, and the life-changing tug it had on me. It was mid-September...
View Article130,000 March in Los Angeles to Commemorate Armenian Genocide Centennial
LOS ANGELES (MassisPost) — In an unprecedented show of support for the centennial commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, more than 130,000 took to the streets of Little Armenia on April 24 to march...
View ArticleArmenia Hosts Dignified, Somber and Life-Affirming Programs for Centennial
YEREVAN — President Serge Sargisian met with French President Francois Hollande who arrived in Armenia to take part in the commemorative ceremony devoted to the Armenian Genocide Centennial. welcomed...
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