From Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan is a Yerevan-based philologist, writer, historian of art, researcher in Armenian Diaspora, translator, Ph. D. He is author and editor of dozen books. Artsvi conducts interviews and writes articles in Armenian, English and Russian.

YEREVAN/CAPE TOWN — My interlocutor, Mario Migirdic (Megerdich) Atakliyan, resides in South Africa. Born in 1965 in Istanbul, he studied at the Surp Haç Tbrevank Armenian Lycée. Actively involved in[...]

YEREVAN-TRIVANDRUM, India — Arjun Krishna Lal is an Armenia and India-based author, entrepreneur, and an emerging leader in the B2B content industry, servicing the US market. While in college, Arjun[...]

YEREVAN-RIGA — Latvian translator Valda Salmiņa (born in 1962) earned a bachelor’s degree in philology with a specialization in German Philology from the University of Latvia and studied Armenian Philology[...]

YEREVAN-BORDEAUX, France — French photographer Gaëlle Hamalian-Testud has been pursuing her artistic vision for more than 30 years, specializing in humanist, documentary and landscape photography. Since 2004, her work has[...]

YEREVAN — On January 14, in Yerevan, Svetlana Gulyan, film scholar and researcher at the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, passed away at the[...]

YEREVAN-LUND, Sweden — Swedish historian and writer Svante Lundgren holds a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He has worked as a secondary school teacher and as[...]

YEREVAN/ATHENS — George (Giorgos) Tossikian is one of the most creative and talented Greek guitarists. He was born in 1981 in Piraeus to an Armenian father and a Pontian Greek[...]

YEREVAN/GENEVA — The Beirut-born Vicken Bayramian is an international business lawyer and serial entrepreneur. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business, Trade, and Tax Law from Sorbonne[...]

YEREVAN — On November 15, Yerevan was the site of a Flamenco concert. What made it surprising was that the ensemble came from Iran. The leader of the group is[...]

YEREVAN — Embroidery artist, curator and writer Lizzy Vartanian lives between London and Yerevan. She was born in 1993, in London, to an Armenian mother and an English father (Collier).[...]

YEREVAN/MARSEILLE — Born in Paris, Katia Guiragossian has long worked in the French cultural field, combining her interests and training in literature, cinema and journalism. With a master’s degree in[...]