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By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator One hot day in late July I received emails from two friends — one is Armenian and the other Italian — both alerting[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian The parliamentary elections in Turkey on June 7 are closely watched events by all parties in the region who will be impacted, one way or another,[...]

By Adam Strom   In September 1939, just before the invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Nazi Holocaust, Adolf Hitler asked his generals, “Who today still speaks of[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach   In times of grave crisis, when it seems that the world has gone insane, when violence reigns, taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocents,[...]

  By Hagop Avedikian I would like to present several observations I have made, based on purely personally impressions, after closely following the parliamentary proceeiings and the work of the[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan The conference organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation about “Islamicized Armenians” at the Istanbul Bosphorus University in early November broke one more taboo in Turkey. A hidden reality,[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan When someone visits Armenia for the first time, the tour itinerary invariably includes a multitude of churches and monasteries. Modern Armenia is the land of churches. Historic[...]

To the Editor: Another April 24 commemoration at Times Square and once again, noticeably absent was Eastern Diocese Primate Archbishop Khajag Barsamian. To what end is his absence meant to[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian No matter what topic we choose today and no matter how festive a mood we pretend we are in, we cannot avoid expressing our sentiments about[...]

Edmond Y. Azadian Syria has been one of the most stable countries in the Middle East and home for the most affluent Armenian community attached to its roots and heritage.[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian I am back in Cairo, Egypt, in this most turbulent of times. This is a city which I called home for almost a decade when I[...]