Restoring the Ledger of History

George Bournoutian’s series of translations of primary sources from Russian, Armenian, and Iranian can only be described as linguistic tours de force requiring knowledge in a wider range of languages than the ones just listed in order to unravel the historical information embedded in these long-overlooked records from the 17th through the 19th centuries.

Armenia’s Only Hippotherapy Center Breaking Ground in Mental Health Sector Amid Financial Trouble

On a blazing summer day in a village named Ushi, Davit Mamikyan, a resident of Jermik Ankyun, Armenia’s first home for physically and mentally handicapped adults, cautiously climbed onto a chestnut-colored horse named Salma. The [...]

Learn Armenian with the Aid of a Computer

Editor’s note: The following is a translation of an article original published by H. Asatrian of the Orer Armenian publication in Prague. We’ve prepared a translated version for Ararat readers to better familiarize them with [...]

The Debate Over Foreign-Language Schools in Armenia

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner In April 2010, the Armenian government proposed a bill of amendments to the Armenian laws “On Language” and “On General Education.” [...]

The Facebook Style of Storytelling

It’s meant to entertain, but a new wave of Armenian history told through Facebook status updates and comments might be the hip story-telling today’s kids need.

A Century of Silence: Terror and the Armenian Genocide

If rape, torture, sex slavery, massacre, and ethnic cleansing are on a continuum of major human rights violations, then genocidal impulse occupies the extreme pole of that continuum. Crimes of genocide go beyond a need for naked power, economic aggrandizement or territorial conquest. They involve psychogenic and psychodynamic underpinnings that can be terrifying to contemplate. Yet, their psychological study is essential.

From the AGBU Archives: A Classroom in the Armenian Orphanage of Kokino, Greece, 1920