By Alin K. Gregorian and Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — A sea of American and Armenian flags rose atop the throng of three-thousand-strong Armenians and their friends who were[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Much has been made of the fact that German leaders, both spiritual and political, broke the taboo and acknowledged the Armenian[...]
By Stephen Kurkjian Though it was more than two decades ago, I can still remember the moment when I connected with my Armenian identity, and the life-changing tug it had[...]
By Ruth Thomasian With 40 years of people showing me their photographs and telling me their stories, I present to you the photographs and stories of two early Project SAVE[...]
By Eric Bogosian Eight years ago I made plans to write a screenplay based on Soghomon Tehlirian’s assassination of Talat Pasha in Berlin in 1921. The story seemed simple and[...]
By Matthias Bjørnlund From 1915, the Danish relief worker and teacher Karen Jeppe witnessed and experienced the Armenian Genocide first-hand in the Ottoman town of Urfa: the death marches, the[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach With these words Percy Bysshe Shelley concluded his “Ode to the West Wind,” and they serve as well to characterize the mood pervading the commemorations in Germany[...]
By Peter Balakian Siamanto was arrested on April 24, 1915, in Constantinople/Istanbul along with the famous group of about 250 Armenian cultural leaders; he, along with one segment of that[...]
By Ümit Kurt The question in one sentence: “What happened to the Armenians on April 24, 1915?” What happened on April 24 in fact is one of the significant radical[...]
ECHMIADZIN – On April 23, the Armenian Church is canonizing the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide at the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin. The service will be led and presided over by Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch[...]
The sun has set. The final rays of light stretch out from the edge of the clouds. The mountaintops remain snow covered. And I walk. The passers-by, the workers, their carts,[...]
