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The Road to Sourp Sdepanos
In May 2014, I was traveling from Van to Kars with my wife and a group of close friends. Not long after passing the northeast-most corner of Lake Van, I was looking up at the countryside when a...
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Armenian Women Artists
Armenian Women Artists (AWA) is an educational and historically oriented Instagram page that aims to bring awareness and recognition to Armenian women artists, both in Armenia and the diaspora. I...
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Armenian Memory Project
In the spring of 1915, Nigoghos Mazadoorian and his father Garabed came across an early ripening mulberry tree while walking through their orchards in Ichmeh, a village in the Ottoman Armenian province...
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Children of War
Wars end, but they always have a habit of returning. The people of Artsakh seem to be moving on with their lives with the expectation that whatever they rebuild can be destroyed again. While the impact...
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Leopold Gaszczyk: The Pole who became a photographer of Armenians
Leopold Gaszczyk, an Armenian family in Aleppo, 1920s-1930s, Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen In archives found around Lebanon, Syria, Armenia, Denmark and Switzerland, observers can find photographs...
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Pages from Armenian History
‘We are our mountains’ monument on the way to Artsakh, circa 1993 (Photo: Knarik Meneshian) Once again, links with our ancestors are being broken on land that has always been ours—Artsakh (Nagorno...
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Armenian “Rosies” and Female Military Service
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, it’s an appropriate time to bring attention to a national campaign which intersects with that of pioneering Armenian-Americans, specifically the American...
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The Armenian Families of Havav
The path to recreating the lost memories of our families and homeland is often winding and arduous. The many fragments rarely can be joined to form a coherent and comprehensive image of the lives once...
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The Heart that Rests in the Highlands
Saroyan’s urn being handed to Writers Union president Vardges Petrosyan, as members Hrachya Hovhannisyan, Vahagn Davtyan, Mkrtich Sargsyan and others look on. (Photo provided by Weekly contributor Jane...
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Letters from Aram
Aram Khachaturian’s handwritten letter to Emma Tsaturyan “To the respectable Emma. With good memories. From Aram Khachaturian, with thankfulness towards her. June 12, 1956 Moscow.” My eyes widened as...
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Artsakh youth opening new horizons: Part 2
Earlier this year, I introduced you to five young and bright people from Artsakh. The positive feedback motivated me to continue highlighting the youth and share the stories of more inspiring young...
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Memories of a Maestro: How the Sergei Parajanov Museum came to be
Entrance to the Sergei Parajanov Museum (Courtesy of the museum) Nestled on the cliffside of Dzoragyugh, a former district of historical Yerevan, stands the Sergei Parajanov Museum, a former workshop...
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Beyond Courage
Ernest Herbert Dervishian On August 10, 1916, in Richmond, Virginia, birds were singing and the sun was shining when Ernest Herbert Dervishian took his first breath. His parents Hagop and Mary were...
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Uncovering an Untold Story: The Fresno Saroyans
August 31 marks the 114th birth anniversary of Armenian American writer William Saroyan—the son of Bitlis’ Armenak and Takoohi and a first-generation Fresno Saroyan. But the story of the Fresno...
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A Photographic Journey into the ARF Archives
WATERTOWN, Mass. — The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Archives constitute an invaluable repository of modern Armenian history from the late-19th century to our days. Thousands of reports,...
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Stateless People, Passports and the ARF Archives
Krikor (George) Nahabedian was born in the village of Parchanj (Kharpert region) around 1884. He married Khachkatoun Garabedian, and soon thereafter, a son Boghos was born. Krikor arrived in the US in...
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Rifles, Bombings and Prisons: Women’s Work of Revolutionary Armenia (Part I)
A female cell of ARF members with party founder Rostom (Stepan) Zorian in Bulgaria in 1893 The fedayees of the Armenian revolutionary movement still loom large today, their heroism and bravery having...
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Rifles, Bombings and Prisons: Women’s Work of Revolutionary Armenia (Part 2)
Continuing the discussion of women’s participation in the Armenian revolutionary movement, this second installment will address underground insurgent actions, the limitations of women’s participation...
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The Man Who Refused to Die
On December 12, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, a beautiful baby named Sam Kazar Harootenian was born. This little boy looked like an ordinary baby, sounded like an ordinary baby and behaved like an...
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Historical Examples of the ARF’s Activities in Dersim
Editor’s Note: The original version of this article in Armenian appeared in the September 2020 issue of Droshag. Munzur Valley National Park in Dersim (Wikimedia Commons) Armenians have lived in the...
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