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A Plate of Ham and Eggs
Involvement and commitment are two words that are sometimes...
February 10 2014 / 47 comments / Read More »By Any Means
No Breaks After 100
It’s April, THAT time of the year again. As...
April 11 2014 / 1 comment / Read More »My Turn
Erdogan Waves Finger at Obama During Heated White House Talk
Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist Seymour Hersh, in a sensational...
April 15 2014 / 7 comments / Read More »Community Links
About Town – A Day in NYC
After I attended the lecture by Hazel Antaramian at...
April 11 2014 / 2 comments / Read More »Critics' Forum
CRITICS’ FORUM: A Year of Ventures and Growth
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had the pleasure of...
December 31 2013 / No comment / Read More »Three Apples
CAPITAL City
Fall 2013 will forever be imprinted in my mind...
October 16 2013 / 3 comments / Read More »Heghinar's Corner
In Memoriam: Aram Gharabekian
The man with a simple baton: but a great...
January 15 2014 / 3 comments / Read More »Op-Ed
Seeking to be Armenian
An initiative introduced by the Armenian government to stop the reduction in numbers of its citizenry was the law of...
April 15 2014 / No comment / Read More »
So Much for the Promised Change
A day after Tigran Sargsyan resigned Armenia’s premiership President Serzh Sarkisian told an audience at the Central Bank that he...
April 15 2014 / 13 comments / Read More »
Crimea, Nagorno-Karabakh and The Right to Self Determination
Nagorno-Karabakh will return home as well. It is already a sovereign and independent state. Its people – after decades of...
April 2 2014 / 41 comments / Read More »
Arts & Culture
Egoyan’s ‘The Captive’ to Compete at Cannes
Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s latest film, “The Captive” will compete for the top honor, the Palme d’Or at next month’s 67th Cannes Film Festival, reported the Toronto Star....
April 17 2014 / No comment / Read More »Video Game Convention Kicks Off in Yerevan
A video game developers’ competition and trade show kicked off on Friday in Yerevan, Armenia, for its fourth year in a row, attracting hundreds of spectators, competitors, and investors. Entitled “Open Play,” the event is...
April 11 2014 / 2 comments / Read More »Youth Corps Blog
Would I do this again?
Absolutely. In a heartbeat. No question. I’ll be better prepared, knowing what...
August 26 2013 / 3 comments / Read More »A Week in Proshian
It is definitely not enough. One week in Proshyan is just...
August 6 2013 / 1 comment / Read More »Memories from Camp Askeran
As our final days in Arstakh came to an end, I began to look back at what my group and I have accomplished and experienced in just these two weeks of Jampar (Camp)....
July 30 2013 / 3 comments / Read More »International
Turkey to ‘Blur’ Twitter Posts to Cover Up ‘Malicious Content’
Turkey’s telecommunications authorities will pixelate Twitter posts to eliminate “malicious content,” Communications Minister Lütfi Elvan said in a written statement Thursday, following talks between the...
April 17 2014 / No comment / Read More »Did Turkey Supply Sarin Gas to Syrian Rebels?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on Monday that the US intelligence community did not share its fears of Turkey’s...
April 8 2014 / 15 comments / Read More »UN Secretary-General Laments Kessab, Urges End to Syria War
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the warring parties in Syria and their supporters to “do everything” to protect civilians in the Middle East country, where armed conflict entered...
April 8 2014 / 2 comments / Read More »