Topic: Yazidi
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A 3-year-old Iraqi Yazidi girl, Arzinda, is gradually recovering after surgery in Yerevan’s Nork-Marash medical center. She has already been transported to the hospital ward, the medical center[...]
YEREVAN — Mirza Dinnayi received the fourth annual Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity on October 20 in a large public ceremony in Freedom Square in Yerevan as part of the[...]
By Lemma Shehadi AKNALICH, Armenia (The Independent) — In the sleepy Armenian lakeside town of Aknalich, crowds gathered for the opening of a new temple on September 30. Inside the[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — President Armen Sarkissian sent a congratulatory message on the consecration and inauguration of the world’s largest Yazidi temple named Quba Mere Diwane in the Armenian village of[...]
BERLIN — Increasing numbers of Yazidi women are committing suicide after moving to Europe from their war-torn homeland. Experts not that this is caused by a number of factors, including coping[...]
By Rukmini Callimachi, Jeffrey Gettleman, Nicholas Kulish and Benjamin Mueller OSLO, Norway (New York Times) — In the midst of a global reckoning over sexual violence, a woman who was[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian The former president of the Committee of Cultural Relations with Armenians Abroad, Vartkes Hamazaspian, a historian in his own right, once said, “Look at[...]
YEREVAN — The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative has announced a new annual scholarship for Yazidi students, established in partnership with renowned Yazidi human rights activist Lamya Haji Bashar. It is the[...]