Topic: Books

Hachig Kazarian’s Western Armenian Music: From Asia Minor To The United States (The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2023) is a valuable contribution to the debate over the notion[...]

At the end of last year, the English-language autobiography of the renowned Iranian singer and actress Googoosh was published in the United States under the title Googoosh: A Sinful Voice[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the 2025 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies, awarded to[...]

Join the International Armenian Literary Alliance for the launch of Literary Lights 2026 featuring Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of New York Trilogy, in conversation with writer, critic, editor and[...]

YEREVAN-KOBE, Japan — Meline Mesropyan (born in Yerevan) studied Japanese at the Yerevan Institute of Humanities before working at a travel agency for a few years. She has lived in[...]

YEREVAN-ISTANBUL — Nesim Ovadya İzrail is a Turkish-Israeli historian, writer and theatre researcher. He was born in Jerusalem in 1952, but moved back to Istanbul with his family when he[...]

COCONUT GROVE, Fla. — At 88 years old, Shahen Guiragossian has turned a lifetime of memories into a lasting legacy. His debut memoir, The Hawk, is more than one man’s[...]

At a time when faith in a viable future for Western Armenian, the language spoken by most diasporan Armenians, seems to be ebbing to a vanishing point, the Armenian Creatives,[...]

A new book, At the Turning of the Wall, draws its inspiration partly from the wonders of Machu Picchu. The magnificent megalithic structures at Peru’s Machu Picchu form the background[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — The audience gathered at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) on November 6 was in for a treat: the capacity crowd had the chance[...]