InternationalEditorial
Hirair Hovnanian continues to block Genocide memorial & museum in DC
Assembly leader's delay tactics are detrimental to Armenian Americans' interests.
Is the Armenian Assembly leadership part of the community or part of the problem?
The Cafesjian Family Foundation is ready to invite the community to join forces and move forward with the Armenian Genocide museum and memorial in Washington – and the Assembly’s leaders know this. So why squander time and money to obstruct progress? Why pay lawyers instead of paying builders?
AAA tactics show contempt for justice and Armenian Americans
Published: Friday March 25, 2011
Two months after it lost the court dispute over the proposed Armenian Genocide museum and memorial, the Armenian Assembly of America is seeking to delay and undermine the progress of the museum as well as the administration of justice.
Census 2010: Responsibility in Our Hands
Published: Wednesday March 24, 2010
The U.S. Census 2010 forms are arriving in the mail, and from now until the April 1 deadline, participation is important, required, easy, and safe.
Editor’s Diary: Turkish presidency’s Armenian history
Published: Friday March 19, 2010
For the past two days our group of nine - experts, commentators from U.S. - has shuttled from one end of Ankara to another for meeting after meeting. Eleven meetings in all far: six yesterday and five today - the latest with President Abdullah Gul.
Commentary
Song and dance moves to Armenia
Moving to Armenia from Diaspora can be very rewarding, but it is also a serious challenge and far from a "song and dance" type of experience some may imagine, writes Nareg Seferian whose family repatriated about a decade ago.
Thoughts on the eve of parliamentary elections in Armenia
Anoosh Gasparian, who recently volunteered in a remote corner of Armenia, encourages greater Diaspora involvement to join local activists in the effort to shake off public apathy fed by poverty, insecurity and injustice.
Easter messages from Armenian American religious leaders
Published: Monday April 09, 2012
Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan and Rev. Dr. Vahan Tootikian reflect on Christianity's most important holiday.
Reflections of an odar jan on the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Published: Sunday April 08, 2012
Initially an outsider looking in, Patricia LaCroix tells the story of her involvement with an organization that seeks to help Armenians afflicted with the life-threatening disease .
Clinton should resign for making offensive remarks on Armenian Genocide
Published: Sunday April 08, 2012
Harut Sassounian demands that Secretary of State leave the post even prior to her anticipated retirement after November elections.
Letters
Heartfelt appeal from Canadian Armenian archbishop
I want to share with you a humanitarian issue that could happen to any of us, which has moved me deeply. One of our faithful, Sevan Hajinian of Toronto, a 50-year old mother of two daughters, aged 14 and 16, has an extremely painful, degenerative spinal condition which, if not treated, will leave her paralyzed very soon. Her condition is the result of complications during surgery she underwent in 1999 here in Toronto.
Campaign for Anahit's return to Armenia from British Museum
I am a Pre-Med student at the University of California, Irvine studying Biological Sciences. I was born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia. As a child I was taken to every major museum in Yerevan. This has contributed immensely to who I have become today and why I decided to undertake this time-consuming initiative.
Bone marrow needed for Armenian American mom
Published: Monday April 09, 2012
Would you help save a life?
My experience with Birthright Armenia
Published: Saturday March 03, 2012
I learned about Birthright Armenia as my holidays in Yerevan were coming to an end in August 2011. I didn't want to go back home because I wasn't getting the feeling that you do when you are ready to go back home from an extended holiday. I had always wished to live in Armenia - to see the fall and winter and the snow-capped mountains. My family moved to Moscow in the 90's, when I was four years old, and since then I had only returned once, in 2006.
Armenian Council of America on CA Democrats convention
Published: Tuesday February 21, 2012
A delegation of members from the Armenian Council of America (ACA) and Gaidz Youth Organization (GYO) took part in the California Democratic Party Convention held at the San Diego Hilton Bay Front Hotel and San Diego Convention Center on February 10 - 12.
