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Opinion Divided on Armenian Withdrawal from Eurovision
Not everyone thinks Armenia did the right thing with its recent withdrawal from the 2012 Eurovision competition.
continue reading »News & Views (Mar 19, 2012)
This week, Egoyan on Ararat a decade later, violence in Syria claims an Armenian life, the internet is not censored in Armenia, the Hamshens, the Vatican reveals Genocide documents and more.
continue reading »Remembering the Victims of Karabakh
“I don’t even remember this war,” was comedian Jon Stewart’s reaction on the February 13th episode of The Daily Show after his guest Ali Soufan mentioned the gory post-Soviet Armenian-Azerbaijani fight for the region of Karabakh in the 1990s.
continue reading »Parliamentary Elections Yet Another Test for Democracy in Armenia
With parliamentary elections in Armenia scheduled for 6 May, Onnik Krikorian interviews American-Armenian analyst Richard Giragosian on the political situation in the country as the vote draws closer.
continue reading »News & Views (Mar 12, 2012)
This week, Armenia withdraws from Eurovision, Occupy Mashtots Park, gender problems in Armenia, Kardashians discuss Genocide, Canadians ok’d to mine in Armenia, ancient Anahit in Armenia and more.
continue reading »A Review of Jerusalem: The Biography
Jerusalem has been called many things, among them “a golden goblet full of scorpions,” and “an old nymphomaniac who squeezes lover after lover to death, before shrugging him off with a yawn” (Amos Oz). One [...]
continue reading »Growing up as an Armenian American in New York City Between the Two World Wars
It was on March 26, 1923 that I first opened my eyes in a hospital on 16th Street on the East Side of Manhattan. My parents, Aram and Elizabeth, had gotten married 20 years earlier. [...]
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