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WASHINGTON — Christina Maranci will deliver the 20th Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 21 in the Northeast Pavilion of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, located at[...]

WORCESTER — The Knights Of Vartan is a national fraternal organization with 25 local lodges in the United States. The Brotherhood is dedicated to the preservation of the Republic of[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Normally Dr. Erna Manea Shirinian spends the first half of her workday as a full professor of history at Yerevan State University[...]

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — An unseasonably gusty and rainy day did not dampen spirits at Armenian Heritage Park on Saturday, May 7. On that day, two[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff BOSTON — The Bostonian Society hosted a special evening program, “Becoming Bostonian,” on April 7 in the Old State House to honor the life and[...]

By Arthur Hagopian JERUSALEM — A thousand years ago, a monk in a distant monastery in the western Armenian province of Reshdunik, picked up a reed pen and began etching[...]

WATERTOWN — The Armenians of Istanbul faced extraordinary conditions in the 1920s. Reeling from the chaos and losses of the World War I Genocide, they had little to guide them[...]

WATERTOWN — On Sunday, January 31, after attending a memorial service at St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown, commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide from Marash (1915 to1920),[...]

FRESNO — Clark University doctoral candidate Ümit Kurt will attempt to answer the question “Why Does Turkey Deny the Armenian Genocide?” in a talk by at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday,[...]

By Stefan Ihrig One day in the winter of 1941, as he “walked through the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto,” Hermann Wygoda, “Ghetto smuggler,” tried to make sense of what[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff Roustam Raza (1781-1845), kidnapped as a child in the Caucasus and sold seven times, was trained in Egypt as a Mamluk but ended up as[...]