Elections, Politics, and Accountability: An Interview with Civilitas Director Salpi Ghazarian
YEREVAN, Armenia—Armenian Weekly Assistant Editor Nanore Barsoumian sat down with Civilitas Foundation Director Salpi Ghazarian in Yerevan before the parliamentary elections. One of the aims of Civilitas is to promote the development of democracy in Armenia through initiatives that support education, rural development, and environmental awareness. Civilitas has been following the election campaign closely, and [...]
Shoah Foundation Director Discusses Digitization of Survivor Testimonies
The University of Southern California (USC) Institute of Armenian Studies’ Leadership Council on Sun., April 15 will honor the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for championing the Armenian Genocide Digitization Project at a gala banquet at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith
The Shoah Foundation Institute, established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, has [...]
Of Cookies and Nukes: An Interview with Comedian Maz Jobrani
BOSTON, Mass. (A.W.)—Comedian Maz Jobrani liked calling Iran “the Paris Hilton of countries” back when Paris Hilton was the Iran of celebrities. “Every time they show us on TV they always show the crazy guy burning the flag going, ‘Death to America!’” he said in one of his more recent stand-up performances. “Just once, I [...]
An Interview with Garo Yalic, Advisor to Valerie Boyer
By Aris Nalci
The Armenian Weekly publishes an interview with Garo Yalic, a politician from Marseille, France, and one of the writers of the French law criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial, which passed in the French Senate on Jan. 23. The interview was conducted before the passing of the bill. It is translated from its original Turkish.
Garo [...]
Noam Chomsky Discusses Turkey with David Barsamian
David Barsamian, the director of Colorado-based Alternative Radio, conducted the following interview with Noam Chomsky on Jan. 20 at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
Barsamian (L) and Chomsky at MIT in January 2012. (Photo by Balaji Narasimhan)
Chomsky is the internationally renowned Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT. In addition to his pioneering work in linguistics, he has been [...]
Akcam: Genocide Recognition is about Justice, Not Freedom of Thought
The following interview with Prof. Taner Akcam, the Robert Aram, Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, appeared in Le Monde on Jan. 7. The interview was conducted by Guillaume Perrier. Below is the interview in English.
Taner Akcam
Q. What is your opinion, not about the genocide denial law [...]
Diana Der Hovanessian: ‘I Write Almost Every Day’
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan
Diana Der-Hovanessian, New England born poet, was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and translations. She has awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, PEN/Columbia Translation Center, National Writers Union, Armenian Writers Union, Paterson Poetry Center, [...]
How an Armenian Filmmaker Got the ‘G-Word’ in a Turkish Movie
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan
The name Eric Nazarian is not unknown to Armenia’s film audiences. For three years, from 2008-10, the Armenian American film director participated in the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan. His first feature film as writer-director, “The Blue Hour,” was awarded four prizes in 2008: the Golden Apricot for Best Film in [...]
‘I want for Armenians what I want for Kurds’: An interview with Mayor Abdullah Demirbas
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—Abdullah Demirbas is a man on a mission. The mayor of Diyarbakir’s central district strives to restore some of the city’s multi-cultural and multi-ethnic character through a series of initiatives to renovate places of worship, adopt multi-lingualism, and encourage those with roots in the city to return.
Baris Alen from the Diyarbakir metropolitan municipality, [...]
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