Performance: most people in Armenia equate the word solely with theater and ballet. For mime, choreographer and movement guru Vahram Zaryan, this status quo some thirty years after the[...]
PARIS (rfi.fr) — The 2020 Albert Londres Prize has been awarded to Le Monde reporter Allan Kaval for his coverage of the war in Syria. The Albert Londres jury hailed[...]
By Henrik Bakhchinyan Recently, I received the new edition of the fifth volume of the Great Russian Encyclopedia (Moscow, 2015). Having spent many years studying the works of Sayat-Nova and[...]
NEW YORK — It was five years ago that I visited the crowning glory of Artsakh, the Dadivank Monastery. Inside the almost bare church, except for fresco paintings and numerous[...]
The Girl from Cairo is a memoir covering Peggy Hinaekian’s early life in Cairo, Montreal, Boston and Manhattan, from 1940 to 1960. It is a riveting story of an Armenian[...]
YEREVAN/CANNES — Arsène Jiroyan, a French stage and screen actor of Armenian descent, was born in 1962 in Istanbul. He has acted in about 20 films and nearly 40 TV[...]
FRESNO — The Fresno State Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced recently the publication of Dr. Vahram Shemmassian’s The Armenians of Musa Dagh: From Obscurity to Genocide[...]
FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Here in the U.S. Diaspora, no children’s book collection is complete without at least one copy of Goodnight Moon. In this timeless bedtime story, a whimsical[...]
DETROIT — Great art often emerges from conflict, hardship, or pain. Oksana Mirzoyan has known these perhaps more than most. As a child refugee fleeing Baku in the late 1980s[...]
By Ani Tatintsyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator From the early days of the Artsakh war, Armenian youth in Armenia and the diaspora had begun flooding the newsfeed on Twitter (or[...]
By Hugh Eakin Since its origins in the ninth century, Dadivank Monastery has withstood Seljuk and Mongol invasions, Persian domination, Soviet rule and, this fall, a second brutal war between Armenia and[...]
