By Sevan Boghos-Deirbadrossian LOS ANGELES — In May and June, during challenging and unprecedented times of the COVID-19 pandemic and after cancelling many events this past Spring, the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) Metro Los Angeles[...]
By Harry A. Kezelian III Special to the Mirror-Spectator DETROIT — “That generation…” Stephan Karougian, the 80-something male soloist of St. John’s Armenian Church Komitas Choir in Detroit, was telling me about his parents, as I[...]
WORCESTER – The following is a statement by Armenian Genocide scholar Taner Akçam, holder of the Robert Aram, Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University, in connection[...]
By Raffi Bedrosyan This is a story told by Hrant Dink — undoubtedly, a true story. It can partially explain the deep trauma of the Armenians who survived the 1915 genocide but had nowhere to go and stayed in Turkey. It can partially[...]
While the population in Armenia is experiencing a crisis within a crisis, meaning political instability during the coronavirus pandemic, Armenians in Lebanon are facing a triple crisis: an economic meltdown during the pandemic in addition[...]
By Ara Darzi When the coronavirus pandemic struck the UK and Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the nationwide lockdown in March, I knew I had to do something to help my patients and my colleagues. This was a national and international[...]
By Tigrane Yegavian The famous French-Armenian historian Anahide Ter Minassian did not have the chance to see this newly published book she translated from Armenian to French in the twilight of her life. An iconoclastic story, Vahé[...]
By Rita Mahdessian The publication of Silent Angel is Providential. It was meant to be released in April, the Genocide month. COVID-19 delayed its release. But this delay was Providential. Silent Angel speaks more meaningfully in today’s[...]
By Charles N. Mazadoorian Special to the Mirror-Spectator There were many mulberry trees in the village of Ichmeh in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Ichmeh was a small village in the province of Kharpert containing several hundred families. It[...]
DENVER (Combined Sources) — The Colorado House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill on Friday, June 3, to require that high schoolers study genocide and the Holocaust in order to graduate. “Ignoring the darkest, most harrowing[...]
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Armenoid Productions announced this that its 2013 award-winning “Orphans of the Genocide” documentary is now available for free on Amazon Prime Video. The visual journey of never-before-seen archival footage and[...]
