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Johnny on the Spot: The Story of a Lacrosse World Champion
Born on Aug. 17, 1952 in the largest city in Canada’s Niagara region and the sixth largest urban area in Ontario, also known as St. Catharines, he went on to Ithaca College in New York on a lacrosse scholarship and later lead Canada to an upset win over the U.S. at the 1978 World Lacrosse Championships in Stockport, England. [caption id="attachment_5240" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Johnny Mouradian"][/caption] “I fell in love with the sport at a young age by playing little league box [indoor] lacrosse with my Armenian and non-Armenian friends. And also by being the ball boy for the locally Armenian-owned Junior A ...
Amberin Zaman: Will Armenia Revoke Its Signature from the Protocols?
By Amberin Zaman The Armenian Weekly January 2010 Magazine Turkey’s continued insistence on linking the establishment of diplomatic ties and the re-opening of its mutual borders with Armenia to the latter’s withdrawal from at least some of the seven regions it occupies around Nagorno-Karabagh has brought Armenia’s President Serge Sarkisian to this very point. [caption id="attachment_5228" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Amberin Zaman: In the eyes of his own people, Sarkisian was essentially hoodwinked. "][/caption] Should Turkey’s parliament fail to ratify the protocols that were signed on Oct. 30 by March 2010, then in all likelihood Armenia will unilaterally revoke its signatures and the process of normalization will ...
Focus on Darfur: An Interview with Nicholas D. Kristof
The following interview was published in the Armenian Weekly on April 5, 2008. More than a year and a half later, its message continues to resonate. NEW YORK (A.W.)—Nicholas Kristof has been an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since November 2001. In his weekly columns, he often tackles issues of human rights abuses and genocide, and has been instrumental in creating awareness on the situation in Darfur. [caption id="attachment_5211" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Nicholas Kristof"][/caption] A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, he has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 140 countries. (He is at least a two-time visitor to every ...
Gunaysu: Turkish State Wages War Against Kurdish Civilian Political Movement
North Kurdistan People’s Initiative calls for “total revolt” (Special report from Istanbul by Armenian Weekly columnist Ayse Gunaysu) [caption id="attachment_5202" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A scene from a Kurdish protest. (photo by Mujgan Arpat)"][/caption] ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)--The Turkish state started a new war against the civilian Kurdish political movement in 11 provinces, from Diyarbakir and neighboring cities to Istanbul and Izmir. Homes of prominent DTP (the Kurdish party recently closed down by the Constitutional Court) leaders were broken into at 5 a.m. and around 60 people, including mayors of Kurdish provinces and districts and the human rights association chairperson in Diyarbakir were arrested. Their rights ...
