Topic: muriel mirak-weissbach

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator KONSTANZ, Germany — At one point in Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet,” the young prince stages a pantomime play, which features a murder scene: Gonzago is poisoned and the[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator ISTANBUL — The turmoil that has swept Turkey since the eruption of protests in Gezi Park and Taksim Square seems to have reached the institutions of the judiciary as well. On[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator POTSDAM, Germany — On September 20, the Gumri music school (“Octet”) will officially celebrate its reopening. And, if all goes as planned, a brand new grand piano will arrive[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator ISTANBUL — Like any other day in the summer season, on July 31, thousands of tourists were standing in lines in the blistering heat to visit the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque,[...]

Activist Targeted by Turkish Authorities Again By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator COLOGNE, Germany — What is really happening in Turkey? And where is it going to lead? What began as a protest against government[...]

Armenians in Germany Commemorate Armenian Genocide By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Among the many nations where people gather on April 24th every year to commemorate the victims of the 1915 genocide,[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator POTSDAM, Germany — Among the required reading for most Armenians is the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel, and the author is thus known among Armenians mainly [...]