Armenian Genocide

Isabel Bayrakdarian Is Experiencing a Renaissance

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is thrilled to be teaching, singing and performing. She has just released a new CD featuring the music of three composers about King Tigran the Great. The CD, titled “The Other[...]

Mardiros and Mariam: Newcomers to Rhode Island from the Ottoman Empire

By Ruth Bedevian My maternal grandparents fell in love at an early age in the village of Soorsooree in Kharpert (Ancient Armenia) under Ottoman rule in the 1800s. While picking apples in the orchard one day Mariam saw Mardiros ride by on a[...]

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