Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Harry Sarkis Cherken Jr., senior counsel in the international law firm of Faegre Drinker, has been appointed honorary consul of Armenia for the Greater Philadelphia area. As honorary[...]

BOSTON – In March 2021, on the eve of the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Peace of Art, Inc., launched its annual education campaign by displaying electronic billboards in[...]

RADNOR, Penn. – Masks. Zoom. Temperature Checks. Social Distancing. Outbreaks. Being a student or teacher has always had its fair share of difficulties, but this past year has unleashed more[...]

PHILADELPHIA — Koudsy Mikaelian died on April 19, 2020. She was 89. She was born in Aleppo, Syria, the daughter of Abraham and Makrouhi Basmajian. One of six siblings, she[...]

By Rachel Vigoda PHILADELPHIA (Eater Philadelphia) — While restaurant dining rooms across the state are shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic, Philly restaurant owners are getting creative when it comes to engaging —[...]

By Harry A. Kezelian III PHILADELPHIA — Eighty years ago, in 1939, three teenage Armenian-American brothers, Sam, Mike, and Joe Vosbikian, from St. Gregory’s Armenian Church in North Philadelphia, started[...]

WYNNEWOOD, Penn. – Antoine S. Bazarbashian passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 23. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, to Hester and Sarkis Bazarbashian, Antoine came to the United States in 1960.[...]

WYNNEWOOD, Penn. — Papken Megerian, vice chairman of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavar) District Committee of the Eastern United States and Canada, publisher of the Armenian Mirror-Spectator and member[...]