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[...]
PHILADELPHIA and DETROIT — Generations of Americans of Armenian descent have had to reckon with the aftermath of a genocide that nearly annihilated their people. Their stories have a new urgency[...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In the words of the Bard, the play’s the thing. That is even true for children, for whom plays can be the means for understanding everything from[...]
BOCHUM, Germany — I conducted a long interview with Serpazan Sebuh Chuljian on October 15, 2015 in Vanadzor. I have included this interview as a chapter in my book, One-Winged[...]
BELMONT, Mass. — Belmont author and filmmaker Sharisse Zeroonian recently wrapped up post-production of a pilot episode of an original television program, “One Plus One Is Two.” The show, which[...]
