His Eminence Archbishop Papken Tcharian Endorses Palliative Care Bill C-277
Under the auspices of His Eminence Archbishop Papken Tcharian, Prelate, the Armenian Prelacy of Canada was part of an interfaith coalition to endorse a private member’s bill that lays the foundation for a national palliative care strategy.
Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s palliative care Bill C-277 has been gaining broad support and appears ...
Zoryan Institute Launches New Syrian-Armenian Refugee Oral History Project
November 9, TORONTO - The Zoryan Institute has officially launched its Syrian-Armenian Refugee Oral History Project conducting its first interview on November 7, 2016. With this project, the Institute seeks to interview Syrian-Armenian newcomers and document their lifestyle in Syria prior to the war, their migration, and their experience of ...
Pan-Armenian Charity To Rebuild Homes In Karabakh
(RFE/RL)- The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has raised almost $15.5 million in donations during its annual telethon broadcast from Los Angeles on American Thanksgiving Day on November 24. It raised $10.4 million during last year’s televised fundraiser.
The funds will be mostly spent on the reconstruction of war-ravaged communities in Nagorno-K...
POM’s 11th Season Wraps up
Hamazkayin's eleventh annual Pomegranate Film Festival (POM XI) in Toronto concluded a five day program on Sunday, November 20 of engaging cinema and unforgettable discourse celebrating filmmaking talent from around the world. Thirty-eight films were screened from fourteen countries. The Festival began with a special presentation of the brand new ...
Kajaznuni’s ‘Nation and Homeland’ Published in Yerevan
(Armenian Weekly)- The Republic of Armenia’s first Prime Minister Hovhannes Kajaznuni’s book Nation and Homeland (Azg yev hairenik) was recently published by Yerevan’s ANI Armenian Research Center.
This exceptional work on the history of Armenian political and philosophical thought was first published in 1923-1924, in the Armenian ...
Peter Balakian Receives Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at Centennial Ceremony
[:en]Peter Balakian received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the 100th anniversary Ceremony of the Pulitzer Prizes held at Columbia University on Oct. 13. Balakian was one of the seven recipients in the fields of Letters, Drama, and Music.
Among the other recipients were Viet Thanh Nguyen in fiction for his novel The Sympathizer, ...
‘Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France’ Published in Fresno
California State University, Fresno Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that Krikor Beledian’s Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France has been published by the Armenian Series of The Press, at California State University, Fresno.
Translated from the original French into English by Christopher ...
The Other Side of Home: Armenian Genocide documentary shortlisted for Oscar
Armenian Genocide-themed documentary “The Other Side of Home” has been shortlisted for 89th Academy Awards.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 89th Academy Awards has been narrowed to 10 films, of which 5 will earn Oscar nominations.
Voters from ...
Interview with Bared Maronian
Interview by Karin Saghdejian
Bared Maronian specializes in producing Armenian documentaries, with three films produced so far. Women of 1915 is his documentary which unveils the role of the Armenian women of the era and the horrors they endured during the Armenian Genocide. The film follows his highly acclaimed documentary, Orphans of ...
From a Border Village to TUMO Dilijan
Armenia—It all started with a phone call…
She knew that there were at least 15 local teens who wanted to attend the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies and learn all about robotics, photography, web development, and more. She also knew that these teens lived almost two hours away and did not have the means to access transporta...
