Three Apples: An Armenian Christmas Gift to a Traveler

You press the record button on your camera and through the viewfinder see the relic, an ancient spear bathing in golden light. You zoom in, pushing past its glass casing, and you realize you are inches away from the object that Christ felt tearing open his body.

Etchmiadzin

You don’t know why, but at this one moment [...]

Chaderjian: The Seat of the Armenian Soul

Once there was and there was not…
It’s a picture perfect Sunday morning in Tatev, a serene and remote corner of southern Armenia. The beauty of this place is so stunning that you have to be reminded that you are not looking at a computer-generated Hollywood backdrop or an image on an HD screen.
This is the [...]

Chaderjian: If It’s A Hye Shoe, Let’s Wear It Out

Once there was and there was not…a fashionable shoe known as “the world’s oldest shoe found in an Armenian cave.”
And what was found in a cave in Armenia last week was not just the world’s oldest shoe, but scarves and pots and pans and two skulls with missing jaws. This story feels like Armenians have [...]

Chaderjian: Three Apples: Armenia’s Road to the EU is Paved with…Apricot Stones?

It’s 1980 in the Tower District of Fresno, and what kids do in this neighborhood is get into gang fights, smoke cigarettes, and skip school. What I used to do was listen to the radio and hands write my own newspapers. Like many of you, I developed a taste for pop music early in life, [...]