Comics Art in Armenia Opening New Horizons
YEREVAN (A.W.)—Comic strips are known as the ninth art worldwide, comprised of both literature and drawings. It is a genre that allows you to see, feel, and live through the stories at the same time. It is often viewed as being equivalent to graphic novels, and there are many feature films and animations that are based on comic books...
Commentary: President Gul Is Begging for Sympathy
Some people believe that with our scattered forces and with a homeland struggling for survival, our efforts toward Genocide recognition are futile against the growing strategic power of Turkey. For many years, we waged our fight for recognition away from Turkey’s territory. Today, the issue of the Armenian Genocide is a topic for...
Keeping Faith in Georgia: Tbilisi Armenians struggle to save their crumbling churches from neglect
The collapse of the bell tower of the Armenian St. Nshan Church in Tbilisi Sunday night again reminded the local Armenian community about the defenseless status that Armenian churches have in Georgia.
While the main reasons for the collapse is considered to be an earthquake that hit the territory a few days before as well as...
HOW WE CAN HOLD THE SOUTH CAUCASUS?
Arevagal: The following article by the former Russian ambassador to Armenia was written just before Moscow liberated South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgian/Western aggression. The commentary by the ambassador is a little insight into how Moscow views Armenia and its role in the Caucasus. The article...
The story of Armenian Jerusalem to come to life in feature film
Jerusalem - The story of the Armenians of Jerusalem, a fascinating tale of courage, hope and endurance, sprinkled with the inevitable grains of turmoil and tragedy, is planned to be told, for the first time in a feature film.
While there have been previous attempts to tell part of the story in a book or a film, the focus has...
Azerbaijan ‘targets activists’ as it prepares to host Eurovision
Baku’s Hospital Number 1 is an impressive building. It is immaculately clean and well equipped, a symbol of the modern state that oil-rich Azerbaijan wants to be. But upstairs in a hospital bed was another symbol of modern Azerbaijan – a badly injured journalist.
Idrak Abbasov was lying, struggling to breathe, with a bandage...
Azeri President Uses Platform at UN Security Council to Revile Armenia
Special to the Mirror-Spectator
UNITED NATIONS — Lies, distortions and propaganda took center stage on Friday, May 4, as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev addressed the topic of “anti- terrorism” before the United Nations Security Council and accused Armenia of “terrorism against civilians, military...
Labor of love: Racine man’s hand-written religious manuscripts now in Armenian Library and Museum of America
Five Armenian religious manuscripts traveled this week from Racine to Boston, where they are being donated to the Armenian Library and Museum of America. What makes these lengthy, large-format books unique is that every word in all five of them was carefully handwritten in the Armenian alphabet (invented by an Armenian monk in 405 A.D...
The Reign of Lies in Turkey
Organized denial means the reign of lies. The denialist, in order to sustain denial, has to resolutely and incessantly lie. Otherwise it can’t go on. The truth, even bits of information that might hold the slightest potential of undermining the lie, is the biggest and most merciless enemy of denial. So the denialist, having created a...
Gharibian’s Study of Armenian Journalism a Valuable Resource
Special to the Mirror-Spectator
Jerair Gharibian, who died in 1991, made an important contribution to Armenian culture in the Boston area, when, in 1980, he founded the Boston Armenian Independent Radio Hour, which to this day broadcasts news and commentary of interest to the Armenian community.
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