1+ week, 3+ 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,…...

2+ week, 2+ 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1324+ words) Measured against the conditions from which these communities emerged, this was an extraordinary achievement. But institutions created to resist disappearance now confront a different problem: what happens when survival itself is no longer enough to sustain collective identity? Together, these…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (982+ words) “The incorporation of the gender perspective into the study of the Armenian Genocide made it possible to understand that genocidal violence did not affect the entire population in the same way,” said Boulgourdjian. Men were often targeted first, especially those…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (659+ words) The Armenian Weekly...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (123+ words) Last week, I exposed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s totally false statement: “Our history contains no genocide, no massacres, no oppression, and no colonialism. Throughout our thousands of years of glorious history, there has been only justice and compassion.” To…...