Today, April 24, marks the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. It’s a personal issue for me, as my grandmother was one of millions who lost her home and most of her family at the hands of a disintegrating Ottoman Empire that was desperate to find a scapegoat for the regime’s problems.
How We Live, the searing portrait of how some of Armenia’s poorest are living on society’s margins, is open one more evening, Sunday, April 18, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.
Sara Anjargolian’s photos portray the searing, cruel struggles that several Armenian families confront daily. The exhibit’s curator is Narineh Mirzaeian, a Los Angeles-based designer and architect [...]
Armenia is not an easy place to live. Landlocked, isolated, and surrounded by either hostile or unstable neighbors (Armenia’s southern border with Iran is its most reliable lifeline), Armenia struggled after gaining independence from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Earlier this decade, Armenia sported one of the highest growth rates in the [...]
Yerevan.
Yes, that’s right. The New York times just covered the opening of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. This US$40 million art center sits on top of the Cascade, an ostentatious yet delightful structure that sums up Armenia. As true with any nationality, being part Armenian, I had to [...]
Right now the Armenian-American community, and much of the Armenian diaspora in general, is up in arms over the new protocols in the works between the Armenian and Turkish governments. The history between the Armenians and Turks is a tortured one. My grandmother is an Armenian genocide survivor, and this is a chapter of history [...]
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