Sevan Nisanyan, the owner of Nisanyan Hotels, and a linguist, columnist, academic, and outspoken critic, is facing a demolition order on his hotels throughout Turkey. In a country packed with illegal constructions, the targeting of the Nisanyan Hotels speaks volumes about Turkey’s persecution of its minority citizens who dare to raise their voice against the [...]

BETHESDA, Md.—Maryland State Assembly candidate Hrant Jamgochian recently received the coveted endorsement of the Washington Post in the tightly contested Democratic primary for the Maryland’s 16th district, reported the Armenian National Committee of Maryland (ANC-MD).
Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) (center) with Maryland State Assembly candidate Hrant Jamgochian and his wife, Lena.
“In a strong field of 11 [...]

The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that the latter had expressly allocated to Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh) during the past 12 years.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) revealed last week that the State Department only spent about half of the amount allocated by Congress to Artsakh. From [...]

Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (HarperCollins), due to be released on Sept. 21, is the focus of the following interview Rachel Goshgarian conducted with author Garin K. Hovannisian over the phone, while the latter was in Yerevan.
But you’ve got to be moved by shadows—they are poems. They [...]