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Under Hrant Dink’s Aura, a Turkish-Armenian Community Comes Into Its Own
As the sun took its last breath on a cold Sunday night, a crowd shuffled its way into a crème-colored hall deep in the heart of L.A’s San Fernando Valley. The mood, although somber, was [...]
continue reading »Mrs. Zildjian and the Muslim Pendant
Lucine awoke from the three-hour apostolic service and turned her head from side to side. She looked up at the stained-glass windows and then at the beautiful crimson lanterns that her brother had designed for [...]
continue reading »New & Views (Jan 30, 2012)
News & Views is a weekly summary of some of the week’s most important stories, links and material of interest to Ararat readers. — Geopolitical risk analyst Ian Bremmer was in Davos last week and [...]
continue reading »Armenians in Books
Two Armenian writers quoted and discussed in John Updike’s High Gossip: Essays & Criticism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 502 pages. 2011) are William Saroyan and Nina Berberova who has a great deal to say [...]
continue reading »Ode to the Night, Zabel Yessayan’s First Published Work
Translated by Jennifer Manoukian This poem, written at the age of seventeen, is Zabel Yessayan’s first published work. It appeared in the first volume of Arshag Chobanian’s literary journal Dzaghig (Constantinople) in 1895. Come, oh [...]
continue reading »New & Views (Jan 23, 2012)
News & Views is a weekly summary of some of the week’s most important stories, links and material of interest to Ararat readers. — The French senate has just passed the bill that would decriminalize [...]
continue reading »Refugee Realities in the Border Villages of Armenia
This series of images, created in seven different villages in Armenia in 2011, illuminates the daily realities facing refugee families living along the border with Azerbaijan.
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