3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (472+ words) Editor’s note: This speech was delivered on behalf of the ARF Eastern U.S. Central Committee during the opening ceremony of the 2026 AYF Olympics in New Jersey. On behalf of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Eastern Region Central Committee, I congratulate the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (337+ words) Over the coming days, we will present to our readers, in a series of publications, summaries of the discussions held during the four roundtables of the Diaspora Mobilization Conference (Paris, April 11-12). These briefs address the role of the Diaspora, national…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (276+ words) I went to the 1969 AYF Olympics in Providence. Labor Day was September 1 that year. If I were writing for the Armenian Weekly back then, I would have been writing this piece on Tuesday, September 2, the day before my junior year…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (849+ words) This individual’s identity is thus transformed from a complex historical and communal inheritance into a political instrument. More troubling still is their role in publicly reproducing a sanitized account of the treatment of Christians in Israel, even as mounting evidence…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (252+ words) We were up early, ready and eager to get to the AYF Olympics in New Jersey. Despite a three-hour flight delay, we finally got to Newark and made it to the Glenpointe Marriott at 5:30 p.m. As is my custom, I love…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (567+ words) On June 10, filmmaker Bared Maronian hosted a focus group screening for his new documentary “Genocide 2.0.” Gathered at West Newton Cinema in Newton, Massachusetts was the group of about 100 Armenians and non-Armenians with diverse backgrounds, professions and ages. Based in Florida,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (459+ words) “It’s me. It’s exactly how I felt inside,” a woman in her 40s said, pausing in front of a portrait that carried an unmistakable expression of fear and abuse. For Mariam Galstyan, the artist who painted it, the woman’s response was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1831+ words) My Camp Haiastan story began in the summer of 1989, during Session II. I was 7 years old, and I went with my older cousin, Talyn. To understand how completely unprepared I was for camp, you have to understand my very limited 7-year-old…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1027+ words) Birth rates in Armenia continue to decline. In 2025, 32,042 births were registered in the country, compared with 33,593 in 2024 and 36,590 in 2023. Labor and Social Affairs Minister Arsen Torosyan also discussed the decline in births at a meeting of the ministry’s Public Council....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (590+ words) In contemporary Armenian discourse, few topics evoke as much raw emotion, deep-seated anxiety, and rigid gatekeeping as the state of the ‘mother tongue.’ For generations, speakers and learners of (Western) Armenian have been instructed to treat their language as a…...