Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA — The heavens smiled down on the Philadelphia Armenian community on Saturday, April 25, as more than 1,000 people gathered to celebrate the dedication of the Armenian Heritage Walk[...]

WATERTOWN — The UCLA Vem String Quartet will have performances in Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Detroit and Los Angeles (Altadena) in May, during a tour presented by the Tekeyan Cultural Association[...]

WAYNE, Penn. — Rose Yessayan Bazarbashian found eternal peace on February 19, surrounded by her sons and daughter-in-law in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Born on March 10, 1938, in Aleppo, Syria, to[...]

Amy Zitelman is the CEO of Philadelphia-based (and woman-owned) Soom Foods, the leading purveyor of tahini and tahini products in the American market, which she cofounded in 2013. Soom was[...]

WASHINGTON — Last week, the directors of eight Armenian museums — the Sardarapat Battle Museum, the National Gallery, the Sergei Parajanov Museum, the Martiros Saryan House-Museum, the Yeghishe Charents Museum,[...]

PHILADELPHIA — On April 12, the Villanova University Movie Theatre hosted a screening of the film “My Sweet Land,” a deeply moving narrative set during the Karabakh conflict. The event[...]

By Melissa Markaridian Selverian PHILADELPHIA — Throngs of local Armenians gathered as the groundbreaking of the Armenian Heritage Walk of Philadelphia was held on Sunday, April 27. Kurk Selverian, chairman[...]

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Penn. — The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) was founded in 2005 to provide humanitarian relief to orphaned children and adults with disabilities in Armenia, Javakhk and[...]

SPRINGFIELD, Penn. — George Dulgerian, a man who lived his life with the same precision and creativity he used to craft the beautiful homes he built passed peacefully at home[...]

By Melissa Markaridian Selverian PHILADELPHIA — In the words of the renowned late French-Armenian icon Charles Aznavour in one of his most adored songs, Pour Toi Armenie (For You, Armenia),[...]