NEW YORK (Broadway World) — The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the recipients of its 2020 National Heritage Fellowships on July 28. Onnik Dinkjian of Fort Lee, N.J. is among the nine[...]
LONDON — Author Serge Momjian in June released his most recent book, titled Tigranes the Great: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Empire. Tigranes the Great ruled the Kingdom of[...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The program Armenian Cultural Hour has been held every Friday by the Sts. Sahag & Mesrob Armenian church’s Cultural Committee over the past two months, and more than[...]
BELMONT, Mass. — The Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) will present an online lecture on Sunday, July 26, at[...]
By Philip Chrysopoulos BOSTON (Greek Reporter) — The mosaics of Hagia Sophia are world-renowned priceless artifacts not only of Greek Orthodoxy but also of Byzantine Civilization and Hellenism. What is lesser known[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/STOCKHOLM — I first met the artist Thelma Emen in 1997, during the months I lived in Sweden, and then twice in Istanbul[...]
(Translated by Karen Jallatyan with editorial assistance by Alec Ekmekji; Marseille: Editions Thaddée, 207 pp.) History often comes down to us in the form of memorized acts and dates or[...]
WATERTOWN — Americans are living through a time of reevaluation concerning the treatment of black Americans and Native Americans, race relations, colonialism and many aspects of history in general. On[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator TREVISO/YEREVAN — Italian composer and conductor Gianni Ephrikian has collaborated with numerous artists of all musical genres. He has produced several records on[...]
BERLIN — On July 12, two human rights organizations based in Berlin issued a joint declaration on the decision taken a day earlier to alter the status of the Hagia[...]
By Carlotta Gall ISTANBUL (New York Times, AP) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on Friday, July 10, ordering Hagia Sophia to be opened for Muslim prayers, an action[...]
