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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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There Once Were Armenians in Malacca
Courtesy Michael Wright Think of major trading ports in the 16th and 17th centuries, and you can be sure Armenian merchants visited them. One such port was Malacca (Melaka) in Malaysia. With its...
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The Many Lives of a Church in Gurin
Click to view slideshow. During my numerous trips to our historic homeland, I have witnessed tragic and quite common sites found in the remnants of our ancient churches, re-purposed into barns and...
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From Armenian Revolutionary Demircioğlu regarding Diyarbakir Prison
Translator’s note: This article was first published in Agos in 2011 by Funda Tosun and later in the Gazete Demokrat on April 14, 2015. It really touched me deeply on many levels when I discovered it....
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Unseen Armenia: From Avarayr to Getikvank
Vayots Dzor Traveling south from Yerevan towards Artsakh, after passing through Ararat province, the main highway enters Vayots Dzor. Shortly thereafter there is the village of Areni, famous for its...
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The Sacrifice of an Armenian American Hero
Pvt. Harry Proodian (August 26, 1925 – June 28, 1944) Seventy-five years ago, in Normandy, France, so many American soldiers fought in hell for a heavenly cause, and so many were killed thousands of...
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A Forgotten Armenian History on a Small Greek Island
Photo: Kurt Bauschardt/Flickr The island of Corfu, which lies off the west coast of the Greek mainland, is no stranger to foreign influences. Its unique culture is a fusion of Greek and Italian...
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Where do Descendants of Immigrants Stand on Modern Immigration?
Portrait of the Gazarian family in Boston, 1908. Left to right: Alice, Azniv, Gladys (small child), Lucy, Toros, Olga and Ted Ghazarian. Ted was the first Armenian graduate at MIT. (Photo: Wikimedia...
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Frances Willard: Armenia’s Angel on Capitol Hill
Marble statue of Frances Willard in National Statuary Hall, US Capitol (Photo: Architect of the Capitol) Inside the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., each state is...
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A Letter to an Armenian Hero
Dear Harry, In the early twenties, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a little Armenian boy was playing with his brother and sisters in the snow. That little boy was you, Harry. Like so many Armenians, your...
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The Remnants of Armenia’s Pagan Past
Geghard (Photo: George Aghjayan) Armenia, considered to be one of the oldest civilizations in the world, is a small, landlocked, mountainous, country located between the Black and Caspian seas in the...
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Happy Birthday, Anna
Master Chief Petty Officer Anna Der-Vartanian Ninety-nine years ago, on December 6, 1920, in Detroit, Michigan, a little girl named Anna Der-Vartanian was born into a family of Armenian refugees. When...
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Understanding the Responsibility of Carrying on a Tradition
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly Before the first month of publication was...
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The Legacy of the Hairenik and the Armenian Weekly: Vital Institutions for a...
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly “As the first wave of survivors reached the U.S.,...
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Trial and Triumph: How the Hairenik Was Born
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly The front page of the Hairenik, published in New...
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How Things Have Changed: Publishing the Weekly in 1948
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly If you were to take a moment to think about how...
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Introducing ‘Our English Weekly’ to the World
From the December 2019 Special Anniversary Magazine Dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of the Hairenik and the 85th Anniversary of the Armenian Weekly The following is the English translation of one of...
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Experts Confirm Armenian Legacy in 18th Century Jeweled Gun of Sultan Mahmud I
The 18th Century “Jeweled Gun of Sultan Mahmud I”—a stunning artifact held in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. BALTIMORE, Md.—The National Museum of Armenian Ethnography...
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The Maragha Massacre: The Other Face of the Coin in the Karabakh War
A monument for victims in Maraghar Massacre. Nor Maragha village, Martakert district, Republic of Mountainous Karabakh (Artsakh) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Ліонкінг) April 10 marks the 28th anniversary...
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