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Recipe Corner: Fall Apple Spice Cake
Guest Recipe contributed by Mrs. Alice Vartanian, Fresno, California Ingredients: 4 cups peeled, cored and sliced apples (Granny Smith or tart red apples) 2 cups flour, sifted 2 cups sugar (use 1 cup...
View ArticleThree Books That Merit Reading
By Lucine Kasbarian These recently released titles were produced outside of mainstream publishing mechanisms. They remind us that Armenians can and should avail themselves of alternatives in order to...
View ArticleRachel Nadjarian Named AIWA’s Executive Director
BOSTON — The Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) announced this week that Rachel Onanian Nadjarian has been named executive director of the non-profit organization, founded in 1991 and...
View ArticleMemorial Unveiled for ‘Martyr’ Kiwi WWI Soldiers Who Fought against Armenian...
By Tony Wright WELLINGTON, N.Z. (Newshub) — It’s estimated 1.5 million people died in the Armenian Genocide during World War I, as did 300,000 Assyrians. On Sunday, November 25, New Zealand’s Assyrian...
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Sevan Nisanyan: ‘It is Agonizing to Witness What’s Happening in Turkey’
By Eylem Yilmaz ATHENS (Ahval) — Turkish-Armenian author and linguist Sevan Nisanyan, living in exile on the Greek island of Samos since July 2017, published his book Halim ile Selim (Halim and Selim)...
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Epic Life of Captain Jim Chankalian Remembered by Tekeyan Metro LA Chapter
ALTADENA, Calif. — The Tekeyan Cultural Association Metro Los Angeles Chapter hosted a program titled “Captain Jim Chankalian: Leader of the Armenian-American Volunteer Soldiers” on Sunday, November...
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Patriarch Bartholomew Visits St. Lazarus Armenian Monastery
Patriarch Bartholomew VENICE — The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, visited the Mekhitarist Abbey of St. Lazarus of the Armenians, in Venice, on November 15. This marked the first...
View ArticleGovernment May Close Diaspora Ministry
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The government is considering closing Armenia’s Diaspora Ministry or downgrading its status, Diaspora Minister Mkhitar Hayrapetyan said on Friday, November 23. The ministry was set...
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Program to Commemorate 1988 Earthquake and Humanitarian Response
BELMONT, Mass. — A special program in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Armenian earthquake will take place on Thursday, December 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Nahigian Hall, First Armenian...
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We, as a People, Are Better than That
By Sona Hamalian What is wrong with us? We Armenians love to talk about how deep the roots of our nation go, yet we often display a glaring lack of farsightedness, as an inextricable attribute of the...
View Article‘Ex Occidente Lux!’ Armenia and the West
BOCHUM, Germany — “Since the early Middle Ages, since the invasion of the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century, the Armenians have been fighting for the restoration of their independence in their own land...
View ArticleSOAR Holds Fundraiser with Artist Michael Aram
By Zareh Maserejian NEWTON, Mass. — The Boston Chapter of the Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) hosted a fall fundraising event on Saturday, November 17, at Bloomingdale’s in Chestnut Hill....
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Ethnic Tensions at Glendale High School Lead to New Measures
GLENDALE — An altercation on the Herbert Hoover High School campus in Glendale in October incited decades-old racial and cultural strife among Armenians and other ethnic groups, reflecting on the...
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Armenian Museum of America Inaugurates New Gallery with Reception
The exterior of the Armenian Museum of America on opening night of the new gallery (photo: Aram Arkun) WATERTOWN — The Armenian Museum of America inaugurated its redesigned main floor introductory...
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Akçam Launches Guerguerian Collection Digital Genocide Archive at Clark...
WORCESTER, Mass. — After the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Krikor Guerguerian, a priest and genocide survivor, traveled the world collecting evidence to document the atrocities. Taner Akçam, the Robert Aram...
View ArticleArtsakh President’s Spokesman Provides Overview of Recent Developments
GLENDALE — Davit K. Babayan, head of the Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh Republic President and deputy head of the Artsakh Republic President’s Office, and doctor of...
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Historians in Action: How and Why We Reclaim an Armenian Feminist Past
Prof. Melissa Bilal CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On Sunday, December 9 at 7 p.m., Zoravik (“in solidarity”), a Boston-based Armenian activist collective that promotes new avenues for political and grassroots...
View ArticleSt. James Armenian Church Men’s Club Dinner Meeting to Feature ATP’s...
WATERTOWN — On Monday, January 7, 2019 there will be a St. James Armenian Church Men’s Club dinner meeting at the St. James Charles Mosesian Cultural and Youth Center in Watertown. The speaker will be...
View ArticleArchbishop Khajag Barsamian Appointed Legate to Vatican
By Florence Avakian ROME — Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, former Primate of the Eastern Diocese for 28 years, has been busy since arriving in Rome on his new assignment from Echmiadzin by Catholicos of...
View ArticleOxford University Armenian Studies Chair Prof. Thomson Dies
LONDON — Prof. Robert W. Thomson (1934-2018), former Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University (1992-2002), who died recently, is remembered by his colleagues and students...
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