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Who Is Mahmut Konuk? Why Is He on the Streets of Ankara?
Translated by Attila Tuygan and Rehan Nişanyan Special to the Armenian Weekly For the past five months, Mahmut Konuk has been staging sit-ins in front of the Çankaya Community Health Center in Ankara,...
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Unseen Armenia: Kamaris and Akori (Part I)
Kamaris[i] is a village in Kotayk marz (province) with a population of about 2,000, according to figures from 2001. There are reportedly Bronze Age tombs in the vicinity. Atop the hill, past the old...
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ARS Eastern USA’s 97th Annual Convention Convenes in Arlington
Convention Applauds 2017 Fundraising, Program Success; Sets New Goals for 2017-18 Fiscal Year By Convention Reporter, Georgi-Ann Oshagan ARLINGTON, Va. (A.W.)—Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Eastern...
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Becoming Aram: The Formative Years of a Revolutionary Statesman (1879-1908)
From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia This photograph, which is stored in the ARF Archives and has never been published previously, shows...
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Demoyan: Celebrating the Republic
From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia “The twilight of a united, free Armenia” reads this postcard (Photo: ARF Archives) The establishment...
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A Glimpse into the First Republic Archives
From the Armenian Weekly 2018 Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia The Declaration of Armenia’s Independence, dated May 30, 1918 and effective retroactively to May 28,...
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Local Voices Express Hopeful Expectations and Cautious Skepticisms
It has been over three weeks since we are living in a different Armenia. Now, in just a few days, the interim government will present its program of short term policies. Many are hopeful about the...
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Banning Single-Use Plastics: Can Armenia Take Out the Trash for Good?
Stand outside of any supermarket in Yerevan for an afternoon and Armenia’s plastic problem comes into focus. In a larger, wealthier nation, it’s easy to lose sight of the waste stream, or how our...
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Thirty Years in Armenian Journalism
Although I have spent the last 45 years in the United States, I consider myself more of a citizen of the world. For thirty years, I was a journalist. I learned to explore and explain everything around...
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Clinging to Identity
Graphic by Proper Company exclusive to The Armenian Weekly In a classroom decorated with ancient and modern maps and photos of students in front of statues and monuments, restless high school juniors...
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Before ‘Ravished Armenia’…
When the American-made motion picture Ravished Armenia was released in 1919, it became the first film to tell the story of the World War I Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a survivor, Aurora...
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Lovestruck and Labeled
“Affection,” Oil on Canvas, 2017. By Masha Keryan, Armenian Weekly Design Apprentice When I was 19 and living in Ireland, a young man named Declan asked me out on a date. “Feel free to say no,” he...
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Meet the Family Making Yogurt With A Healthy Serving of Armenian Culture
In 1929, two Armenian immigrants set up a modest dairy facility in Andover, Massachusetts. Their production was centered on a food item often consumed in the old world: a sourish, white substance...
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Armenia’s Stealth Fight for Decentralized Internet
Illustration: Lilit Markosian In an unimpressive building located just behind a semi-abandoned Soviet-era theme park, programmers are building a decentralized internet for Armenia. Led by Vahagn...
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On the Passing of Archbishop Mesrob Mutafian: ‘A decade-long goodbye for a...
Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan was one of the most courageous, principled and forward-looking church leaders in the contemporary history of the Armenian Church. His youth,...
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Now and Then: The Opera and its Surroundings
Yerevan Opera House under construction (Photo: yerevan.am) While Yerevanstis were focused on the Spendiaryan National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet and, especially cafes located nearby, I tried...
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Recounting Righteous Acts in Times of Hopelessness
After the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed never to mention the name of the terrorist responsible for those horrific actions. “Speak...
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When Erdogan Apologizes
Erdogan speaks at “The Symposium on Our Archives’ Development, Vision and Contributions to Historical Research” (April 2019) (Photo: Office of the President of Turkey) On April 24, 2019, Turkish...
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Population Data about Armenians in Ottoman Istanbul Now Online
Istanbul, a view from the Pera District (Source: Raymond H. Kévorkian/Paul B. Paboudjian, Les Arméniens dans l’Empire Ottoman à la veille du Génocide, Paris, 1992). (Courtesy of Houshamadyan) LOS...
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Revisiting Komitas: A More Optimistic, Psychological Reading
For over half a century, the story of Komitas, who ended his life in a psychiatric institution after a prolific career as a composer, became a symbol of trauma of the Armenian Genocide. The very fact...
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