Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (HarperCollins), due to be released on Sept. 21, is the focus of the following interview Rachel Goshgarian conducted with author Garin K. Hovannisian over the phone, while the latter was in Yerevan.
But you’ve got to be moved by shadows—they are poems. They [...]

LINCOLN, Vt.—Give Chris Bohjalian his family, a bicycle, and a bottle of good wine and he’s one happy fellow.
Best-selling author Chris Bohjalian has his sights set on a book about the Armenian Genocide, with a 2014 publishing timetable.
Somewhere in the mix has to be a burgeoning literary career that has sprouted 13 books, a host [...]

Florida-based Bared Maronian is an Emmy Award-winning producer. His latest film, “Orphans of the Genocide,” is a documentary dedicated to the more than 150,000 Armenian orphans of the genocide. The inspiration for his story was a recent article written by award-winning journalist Robert Fisk of the Independent, discussing Silicon Valley engineer Maurice Missak Kelechian’s scientific [...]

DETROIT, Mich.—Why have America’s last three presidents bowed to the whims of the pro-Turkish lobby in the U.S. State Department by not recognizing the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide in their annual April 24 messages of “remembrance?”
In their successful bids for the White House, candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama [...]

For the last 16 years, Anahit Gharibyan has been manager of Armenia Tree Project’s Community Tree Planting (CTP) Program. She has been instrumental in establishing the CTP program’s policies and procedures, and has been responsible for much of the program’s success. With her efforts, ATP’s CTP program has planted and rejuvenated 1,026,857 trees at 842 [...]

‘Memorial to April 11’
By Theodik
(First published in 1919 by O. Arzumanian)
Edited by Dora Sakayan
269 pp. Istanbul, Turkey
Belge International Publishing
First written and published in 1919 by Theodik, Memorial to April 11* (in Armenian, Hushartsan Abril 11-I; Turkish, 11 Nisan Aniti) pays tribute to the murdered intellectuals and community leaders of 1915—the writers, journalists, editors, clergy, academics, [...]

Ece Temelkuran’s latest book Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide explores the history and continuing discussion surrounding the Armenian Genocide in Armenia, Turkey, France, and the United States. The project, which was borne from conversations the author had with Hrant Dink, the late editor of Agos newspaper, probes deeper into this situation by interviewing a [...]

On April 9, Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian and his team of Russian and American physicists published a paper discussing their discovery of element number 117 in “Physical Review Letters.”
Yuri Oganessian
The team led by Oganessian of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, discovered the still unnamed element by colliding together calcium-48 (an isotope made [...]

I interviewed Mike Agassi because both his parents were Armenian, and his son Andre is a celebrity who has a celebrity wife—Steffi Graf (you’ve heard of her)—whom Mike loves, and a celebrity ex-wife—Brooke Shields (you’ve heard of her, too). And he won’t even be 40 till the week after our April 24th commemorations. Andre won [...]

On March 10, Mariam Sukhudyan was awarded the U.S. Embassy of Armenia’s first ever Woman of Courage Award. In her speech, U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch commended Mariam for her environmental and civic activism: “[Mariam] has campaigned to protect Armenia’s forests, wildlife, and environment; she has volunteered in schools for special needs children; and when [...]