ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)—On Jan. 19, on the third anniversary of the assassination of Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian editor of the weekly Agos newspaper, protesters in Istanbul changed the name of Ergenekon Avenue to Hrant Dink Avenue. The street is located in the Kurtulus neighborhood near the editorial offices of Agos, and near where Dink was [...]

Below is the full text of a letter written by Armen Rustamyan, the chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations in the National Assembly of Armenia, to House Chairman Howard Berman on March 5.
Armen Rustamyan
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The Honorable Howard Berman
Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Chairman Berman,
I wish to extend to you [...]

From the Word Lab
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: A made–up word on the Lat. honorificabilitudo, honorableness, which frequently occurs in Elizabethan plays as an instance of sesquipedalian pomposity.
Ex. “thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus”
—Shakespeare: Love’s Labour’s Lost, act V, scene i.
 
Anyone We Know?
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps himself in the [...]

WASHINGTON—On Thurs., March 4, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the Armenian Genocide Resolution–H.R. 252. The resolution passed by a vote of 23 to 22.
Armenian Genocide survivors attend the hearing.
The resolution will now be sent to the House of Representatives for a vote by the full chamber at a date to be [...]

Glendale, Calif.—The United Armenian Fund (UAF) contributed $33 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia during the fiscal year 2009, consisting primarily of medicines and medical supplies, according to the latest audit of its financial statements.
The UAF devoted less than 1 percent of its total revenues to administrative expenses, allocating the remaining 99 percent to assisting [...]

WATERTOWN, Mass.—Former Bentley College president Gregory Adamian worked there. So did Tufts University guru John Baronian and prominent artist Arshile Gorky, until he overstepped his boundaries and got dismissed.
Roger Hagopian
The Hood Rubber Company proved an ideal sanctuary for many an Armenian immigrant who survived the genocide as well as prominent Armenian Americans throughout the early [...]

On Thurs., Feb. 11, Dr. Rubina Peroomian will present a lecture titled “And Those Who Continued Living in Turkey after 1915” at the Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF) in Arlington, Mass. The event is organized by the Boston Chapter of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society.
The recent political developments in the world have created a [...]

By Hrag Yedalian
“Dear Professor Zinn.”
That’s how all of my emails to him began. Sometimes, I would be more casual and address him only as Professor. I could never muster up the courage to call him by his first name—I never found it appropriate. I simply had too much respect for him, and always felt compelled [...]

On Jan. 24, Danny Tarkanian’s campaign for the United States Senate announced the recent endorsement by former California Governor George Deukmejian.
“I am pleased to announce my endorsement of Danny Tarkanian for the United States Senate,” said Governor Deukmejian. “Danny is both an entrepreneur and a leading voice in non-profit educational work in his community. Most [...]

The students at the Armenian Nursing Center
On Dec. 22, 2009, the fourth and fifth grade students of the St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School (SSAES) visited the Armenian Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jamaica Plain, Mass.  The nursing home residents, gathered in the main hall, were treated to Armenian Christmas songs and poems performed by the [...]