WATERTOWN — Publisher and syndicated columnist Harut Sassounian, delivering the keynote address at a community-wide commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on Sunday, April 6, at the[...]
LAS VEGAS — A casual observer of Ellen Alaverdyan might be fooled by her cute smile or sweet peals of laughter. After all, she looks like a charming pre-teen. However,[...]
WASHINGTON — Those of us in the diaspora are seeing increasingly worrisome pictures from the trials of Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The trials, near-universally acknowledged as shams,[...]
WATERTOWN/YEREVAN —Tigran Hamasyan is no ordinary musician, as anyone who has seen him play can see. The prolific composer and performer lives and breathes his music, becoming one with his[...]
WATERTOWN — The fate of the Armenian leadership of Karabakh (Artsakh), who were arrested in September 2023, after Azerbaijani forces staged a brutal attack on the enclave, taking it over[...]
GENEVA (Armenpress) — During his working visit to Geneva, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met on February 25 with Iceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Katrín Gunnarsdóttir. According to the Armenian Foreign[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard Law School is one of the world’s most selective law schools, with an acceptance rate of around 7.5 percent. Those odds did not deter Anahit Melkonyan,[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Garo Paylan, the former member of parliament in Turkey and outspoken proponent of rights for Armenians and Kurds there, delivered a powerful speech on January 22 at the[...]
WATERTOWN — The series of horrors that befell Artsakh (Karabakh) starting in 2020 with the loss of much of its territory and ending in 2023 with the expulsion of its[...]
WATERTOWN/ALEPPO — The incredibly swift end in December to the slow-churning, devastating, decade-long Syrian Civil War caught both Syrians and the rest of the world by surprise. Ahmed al-Sharaa (nom[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Saturday, November 16, was all about numbers for St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School (SSAES) in Watertown — and what good numbers they were, too. On that night,[...]