On Jan. 7, 1920, the Hairenik — our mother paper — published a grid of classified ads. Each begins the…
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“Genocide” and “thank you” are notoriously long words in Armenian. And so is “dignity”: արժանապատվություն | arjanapatvutyun. From արժան (arjan)…
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Love stews in wartime. It cooks all that peace discards. We’re on the cutting board. There’s no fruit – only…
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Today, I drove to a field and a grave. And met faces old and new, familiar and unworn. The AYF…
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When I wrote about my (post)war days in the (inter)war zone, I left out Nshan. He was the first father…
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Akh, Badik. His birth name was Armen—but no one called him that. “Duckling.” I don’t know how he got the…
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This is the final print edition of The Armenian Weekly. Six months ago, I wrote my first editorial. I noted,…
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In 1886, workers in Chicago sparked a movement, demanding the eight-hour workday. Three years later, May 1 was declared International…
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Armenia Amnesty International’s 2024 global report cites Armenia’s significant challenges in integrating over 100,000 displaced residents from Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh. The report…
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Growing up, my sister and I spent summers with our mother’s relatives in Yerevan. For two months, every two years,…
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