Garen Yegparian

Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
Garen Mouths Off

Derelicted responsibility

The responsibility in question here is one that most of us are likely unaware of. It’s not one that, to…

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Thank You, Martin

This year, I attended the Burbank Human Relations Council’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. The focus was on…

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O.E. + R.o.T. = Continuity

It rhymes, doesn’t it? Say it out loud, nay, sing it. “O.E. + R.o.T. = Continuity”! Of course, O.E. =…

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Armenia without Armenians

Who remembers this phrase nowadays, “Armenia without Armenians,” or “Hayasdan arantz hayeroo”? That was Ottoman policy — whether through forced…

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Two rays of hope

The rays I’m discussing are so different that they might as well have emanated from Sol and Earendel. Nevertheless, as…

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Imagine…Erdogan’s Right!?!

As often occurs, I have fallen far behind in my reading, so imagine my amazement when I saw what the…

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Drones for Armenia

A little over a month ago, I encountered an article in Foreign Policy titled ‘All It Takes is One’: Iran…

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So Sad, Too Far Gone

A few months back, Zareh Sinanyan, the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs paid an official visit…

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Pomposity to Mask Ineptitude

The “Global Armenian Summit 2022” is underway in Yerevan. In the coming days, we’ll hear endless drivel about what a…

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Multi-Continuations

Just a little shy of 33 years ago, I wrote my first piece since moving to the west coast. The…

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