Ten Revolutionary Works of Art Make Debut as Postage Stamps
BUFFALO, N.Y.—The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today honored the artistic innovations and achievements of a group of artists who put the U.S. to the forefront of the international art scene with the release of the Abstract Expressionists commemorative postage stamps. The vibrant stamps feature works by [...]

The Genocide Against the Armenians 1915-23 and the Relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention
By Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, with a preface by the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva
On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
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Dr. Alfred de Zayas is a renowned legal expert and professor of international law at the Geneva School of [...]

Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
By Hans C. Ohanian
New York: W.W. Norton: 394 pp., $24.95
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Hans C. Ohanian’s insightful book, Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius, explores Einstein’s life and work, and provides an engaging narrative that effectively incorporates a modern history of physics. The author delves deep into Einstein’s physics, focusing especially on [...]

Eva Rivas will represent Armenia in Oslo.
On Feb. 14, ARMTV, Armenia’s public television company, held the country’s national final to select the winner(s) that will represent Armenia at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway from May 25-29. The event took place in the National Opera Theatre in Yerevan and was broadcast live. Nine [...]

Secrets of Eden
By Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover: 400 pp. New York.
Shaye Areheart Books. $25.
Chris Bohjalian’s latest novel, Secrets of Eden, is a skillfully weaved tale, a net of secrets, with a murder at its center. The story is set in a Vermont suburb, where “…murder-suicides are blessedly uncommon.” The victim is Alice Hayward, strangled by her husband, [...]

The Pencere (“window” in Turkish) Publishing House has been publishing Turkish translations of important books that deal with the “Armenian Question.” Some say this is evidence that any type of book can be published in Turkey today, and that the will to overcome certain obstacles is present and strong. Pencere’s latest publication is Agop Hacikyan [...]

A Short Story by Richard Ohanian
A group of fish lived in a tank in the aquarium. They had lived there all their lives.
Their parents, and their parents’ parents, were all born and died in the tank.
This group of fish lived in harmony, based on a code of ethics—a worldview for a long time.
But the tank [...]

In Canada, brothers John and Frank Petizian have come together to teach Armenian youth their native tongue.
“We were asked to be music teachers at the Halton Peel Armenian Saturday School in Oakville, Ontario around three years ago,” said John Petizian. “So in 2007 while we were there, we saw that we could contribute in other [...]

OSLO, Norway (A.W.)–During these cold and dark months of winter in Norway, there is only warmth and light radiating from the faces of three Armenian-Norwegian youth in the southern city of Skien.
Aleksander Varadian Johnsen, 13, Harout Yacoubian 12, and sister Maria, 9, recently met at no better place than where they enjoy being the most—on [...]

By Razmig Shirinian
All four articles in the current issue of the “Armenian Review” (Vol. 51) have undertaken the scrupulous task of analyzing the concept of civil society in Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora.
After a brief mention of the constitutive and functional features of a civil society, Armine Ishkanian in her article points out that Armenia [...]