From Aram Arkun

Aram Arkun

Aram Arkun is managing editor of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator, as well as executive director of the Tekeyan Cultural Association of the US and Canada, which supports the Mirror. Journalist/editor, historian and translator, he is the author of numerous academic articles on modern Armenian history, including on the Armenian Genocide.

As the publisher’s website for An Uncertain Ally proclaims, the book is an outright indictment of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, current president of the Republic of Turkey, who is referred to[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff BELMONT, Mass. — Dr. Owen Miller summarized his research on the massacres of Armenians in Sasun in 1894 at a talk at the National Association[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON—The music of Armenian pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan was the focus of the Berklee Middle Eastern Festival on March 8 at the Berklee Performance[...]

By Aram Arkun, Mirror-Spectator Staff The destruction of the Armenian Genocide manifested itself in countless ways. One was the huge number of children left orphaned. The largest orphanage in the[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff NEWTON, Mass. — By now there are a good number of documentaries on the Armenian Genocide, but as good as some of the older ones[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — Armenians have lived throughout the world and participated in many different cultures both in the past and present. A powerful example of this[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff BELMONT, Mass. — “Simon’s Way,” a short feature film from Armenia, will be screened at the Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston in Belmont on Sunday,[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff DEDHAM, Mass. — Robin Casarjian, founder and director of the Lionheart Foundation and its National Emotional Literacy Project, is an expert on forgiveness — a[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — An event for author Dawn MacKeen to promote her book on the Armenian Genocide, The Hundred-Year Walk, was presented last October by the[...]

BOSTON — The Armenian Heritage Foundation’s K. George and Carolann S. Najarian, MD Lecture on Human Rights scored a coup when it booked singer, actor and human rights activist Harry[...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — During a panel talk at the Armenian International Women’s Association 25th anniversary conference earlier this month, Sona Movsesian, executive assistant for comedian Conan O’Brien, spoke about how[...]