As part of my exploration of different communities, I decided to travel to Gyumri and stay there for a week and write about the city 30 years after the earthquake.
A Delightful Visit to a Preschool at a Village in Armenia
FCN (Focus on Children Now) is one of the many organizations formed by the Armenian Diaspora to provide basic necessities of life to the widespread poverty that exists in Armenia, especially in the villages.
Armenians in Poland: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Day
While visiting Poland, Catherine Yesayan discovers the rich and important roles that Armenians have played in the country’s history for over 600 years.
An Overdue Letter to my Dad
My earliest memory of my dad goes back to when I was two or three years old in Tehran. That specific moment is engraved in my mind.
St. Valentine vs. St. Sarkis
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and wherever we turn we see pink hearts, red hearts, roses, jewelry and the list goes on.
The Rose Float—A Tribute to Armenian Woman
I have been envious of some of my friends who, for the last four years, have decorated the Armenian float for Pasadena’s Rose Parade
A Pilgrimage to Our Ancestral Land
The morning we were going to start our trip, I woke up to a phone call.
Hidden Armenians Coming out of the Shadows
On a recent road-trip to eastern Turkey, where once the land belonged to Armenians, we visited Diyarbakir, one of the largest cities in the region with a population of close to one million.
Only in Yerevan
On the last day of the Golden Apricot Film Festival, the buzz was to see the controversial and Avant-garde Swedish movie, “The Square,” that had won the top film prize of Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Come travel with Me to Marseille.
My flight landed in Marseille at 10:30 in the morning. I was coming from Yerevan via a two-hour overlay in Athens.