New Shape at Heritage Park
BOSTON — On Sunday, April 7, the annual reconfiguration of the abstract sculpture at the Armenian Heritage Park in Boston took place. The split dodecahedron is the symbol of Armenians and all who were...
View ArticleNazar Nazarian: The Man and His Community
By Hagop Vartivarian ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — On the eve of the jubilee celebration of benefactor Nazar Nazarian’s community activities, the Mirror-Spectator is printing an interview from 2009 between...
View ArticleAzerbaijani Foreign Minister Visits Israel
BAKU (RFE/RL) — Elmar Mamadyarov has become Azerbaijan’s first foreign minister to make an official visit to Israel. On April 22, he met with Israeli President Shimon Peres on the first day of his...
View ArticleVirtual Tour of Yerevan’s Genocide Museum Now Available
YEREVAN (Hetq) — On the eve of the 98th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, US-based Memco Inc. has updated and released a virtual tour of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in an...
View ArticleApril 24: The Elephant Not in the Room
To the Editor: Another April 24 commemoration at Times Square and once again, noticeably absent was Eastern Diocese Primate Archbishop Khajag Barsamian. To what end is his absence meant to serve? One...
View ArticleOutrage and Fury
By Edmond Y. Azadian The US once again witnessed events reminiscent of 9/11, although fortunately on a more limited scale but of equal sensationalism. The suspected Boston Marathon bombers, brothers...
View ArticleAlexanians Produce Father-Daughter Film on Genocide
By Tom Vartabedian GLOUCESTER, Mass. — Nubar Alexanian, 62, has spent the past 35 years working as a photojournalist and filmmaker. He’s traveled to more than 40 countries shooting for magazines such...
View ArticleCapturing the Armenian Experience: Novelist, Poet Nancy Kricorian
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — For poet and novelist Nancy Kricorian, writing has always been an integral part of her life. “I started writing poems as soon as I began writing...
View ArticleHelen Anahid Sahagian
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Helen Sahagian died on March 28. Born in Boston, in 1920, Helen Anahid was the youngest child of Nevart Artemis Zartarian and Sahag Krikor Sahagian of Sebastia, Historic Armenia....
View ArticleApril 24 Commemorated by Somber Joint Program
By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — The Hovnanian Hall of the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center (ACEC) was packed with hundreds of people who wanted to hear Armenia’s...
View ArticleThe Mystery Deepens
By Edmond Y. Azadian While Armenians around the country were grieving the loss of four victims and 200 wounded as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings — a story which ended in the Armenian neck of...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Turns down Armenians’ Suit on Inçirlik
SAN FRANCISCO (PanARMENIAN.Net) — California Court has turned down the US Armenians’ suit over the territory of the current US military base in Inçirlik, Turkey, CNN Türk TV channel reported. In...
View ArticleSOAR Organizes Aid for Children Displaced by Orphanage Fire
YEREVAN — On the morning of May 5, an extensive fire broke out on the second floor of Mari Izmirlyan Orphanage, which houses approximately 100 children with special needs. The cause and extent of the...
View ArticleRemembering the Dead and Living Victims of the Armenian Genocide
By Raffi Bedrosyan During the endless Turkish arguments and Armenian/international counter arguments about the number of massacred Armenians in 1915, Hrant Dink would repeatedly remind both sides about...
View ArticleInternational Delegation Commemorates Genocide Anniversary in Istanbul
ISTANBUL — An unprecedented joint delegation of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Europe and European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) comprising 20 people from 15 European countries,...
View ArticleBuildings for Syrian Refugees in Armenia
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Sites have been chosen in the cities of Ashtarak, Echmiadzin and Masis for the construction of buildings and detached houses for the Syrian-Armenians settled in the Republic of...
View ArticleIstanbul Police Arrest Armenian Church Shooting Suspects
ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — Two young men were arrested in Istanbul this week over the shoot-out in Saint Hovhannes Armenian Church on May 5. According to Radikal paper, those arrested were...
View ArticleBanquet Honors Nazar and Artemis Nazarian
NEW YORK — About 400 friends and family members attended a banquet, jointly sponsored by the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, honoring Nazar and...
View ArticleMark Geragos Speaks at St. James Men’s Club
By Nancy Kalajian Special to the Mirror-Spectator WATERTOWN — Attorney Mark Geragos, the featured speaker on Monday, May 6, at the monthly dinner meeting of the Men’s Club of St. James Armenian Church...
View ArticleHoly Trinity Armenian Church Hosts CNN’s Peter Bergen
CAMBRIDGE — As part of its Dr. Michael and Joyce Kolligian Distinguished Speaker Series, Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston hosted a May 7 lecture by CNN national security analyst and...
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