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Motherhood and Armenian National Identity
“A Mother’s Hands,” monument dedicated to victims of the Armenian Genocide, Lowell City Hall, July 2017 (Photo: former Weekly editor Pete Nersesian) Throughout history, there have been numerous...
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Imperial Russia’s Newspapers and the Relief Campaign for Armenian Refugees
The Great War caused unprecedented calamities throughout 1914-1918 and affected the lives of millions of people – combatants and civilians – both on battlefields and on home fronts, challenging...
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A Trifecta of Female Parliamentarians
In honor of Mother’s Day, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region compiled a list of 36 Armenian women who inspire and empower them in their daily lives – in Hai Tahd, at home...
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Rescued and Saved: Armenian Genocide Survivors at Aleppo Reception Home
The Genocide perpetrated against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was both gender-oriented and age-oriented. While the Armenian male population was generally killed before or at the beginning of...
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Yervante and Elbis Beurkdjian, Armenian Heroes
Adolf Hitler and his entourage visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris on June 23, 1940, following the occupation of France by the Nazis (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archives) Today, all around...
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Tales from Trebizond
Click to view slideshow. Continuing the search for authenticity, truth and the origins of the world, I had to stop and study Trebizond. Trebizond comes from the word ‘Trapezous’, which in Greek means...
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Divine Providence
Harry Kizirian’s story began 95 years ago, on July 13, 1925, at 134 Chad Brown Street in Providence, Rhode Island. The first cry of this newborn baby was the sweetest sound to his parents’ ears. Harry...
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Beyond Motherhood: Female Fedayees
The ANCA Eastern Region’s Empowerment series continues with a lesson about the female fedayees who were instrumental in securing the future of the First Republic of Armenia. The term fedayee, derived...
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A Norwegian Hero for the Armenians
Bodil Biørn (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) July 22 is the 60th anniversary of the death of Bodil Biørn, a Norwegian missionary who helped Armenians during three decades in three different countries. There...
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Beyond Motherhood: Jeanne Parseghian, A Legacy of Leadership
Jeanne Parseghian, mayor, Strasbourg, France In this empowerment series article, we meet Jeanne Parseghian, a French politician and member of the European Ecologie Les Verts (France’s Green Party)....
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The Issue of Nagorno-Karabakh in the League of Nations
The collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to many territorial problems for former Soviet territories, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict being one of the vivid ones. Exercising its right to...
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Peter Ovian: A Son, A Rock, A Hero
Pvt Peter Ovian The story of Peter Ovian begins in 1923 in Whitinsville, a small village in Massachusetts, and ends 20 years later in Dinozé, a small village in northeastern France. It starts with an...
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Celebrating Independence: Artsakh Then and Now
Author Matthew Karanian encountered a platoon of Artsakh soldiers on patrol in central Stepanakert in 1995. Photo (c) 2020 Matthew Karanian I had just arrived in Artsakh in the summer of 1995, when I...
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Stillborn Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Limits of Official Diplomacy to...
In this article we will be referring to the characteristics of internal armed conflict and provide a theoretical framework to better understand why Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) resists a compromise solution...
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Too Young to Die
Private Samuel Terzian On December 24, 1924, when the rest of the world was celebrating Christmas Eve, Charles and Mary Terzian, an Armenian couple living in Los Angeles, California, were celebrating...
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Fighting to Survive: A View from Stepanakert
A resident of Stepanakert (Photo: Armenian Unified Infocenter/David Ghahramanyan) STEPANAKERT—Early this morning, I was awakened by distant thuds, sounding at regular intervals, as Artsakh’s capital...
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What’s Behind All the Pro-Azerbaijan Articles?
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has opened another battlefront thousands of miles away from Baku, in the pages of local and national newspapers and news sites in the US. Much like the Syrian...
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Securing Artsakh’s Borders: A never-ending task
BERDZOR, Kashatagh Province, October 20—Dusk. Usually, this is a lovely time to drive through the Lachin Corridor—that vital patch of land linking Artsakh to Armenia. From the reddish hues of Syunik’s...
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The Beating Heart of Artsakh: A Photo Essay
In the course of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which reached a sudden end on November 9, Artsakh was steeped in a humanitarian disaster. The Armenian settlements of Artsakh endured persistent...
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Paving the Way
Second Lieutenant Sue Sarafian Jehl In June 1944, in London (England), General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was making the final decisions about the D-Day Invasion of...
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