Vahram papazyan biography of christopher
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Tribute: Actor and Director Fazlian Played Important Role in Armenian and Lebanese Theater
In , he immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal for several decades before eventually returning to Beirut. In Canada he continued his artistic work, joining the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA). In , he founded Montreal’s TCA Hay Pem and directed a work of the famous Canadian author Robert Gurik in Armenian translation as “Baran ge dzakhem.” He participated in the local Theater Festival of Minoritie” and won first prize. In , he founded Montreal’s Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (ADL) “Armenorama” television show.
The Hay Pem theater group held performances abroad, in London, Paris, and various cities of Syria, Egypt and the United States, including New York, Boston and Philadelphia. During the London performance, Fazlian joined the ADL with Vartan Ouzounian as his godfather, and thus formalized his adherence to the political and patriotic views that he had supported for so many ye
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Special to the Armenian Weekly
Last week, while criticizing Israel and the United States on President Trump&#;s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel&#;s capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated with great conviction, “There has never been any genocide, holocaust, massacre, ethnic cleansing, or torture in our [Turkish] history.”
He said this without even batting an eye…
This wholesale denial of historic facts regarding the treatment of minorities by the state is nothing new, but with each act of denial, history keeps repeating itself with sickening regularity—the massacres of Armenians were followed by the massacres of Greeks, Assyrians, Alevis, and Kurds.
This article will focus not on the denial of genocide, but on the denial of the very existence of the Armenians and the many contributions they have made in the country.
In a previous article (&#;The Untold Stories of Turkey: An Armenian Island on the Bosphorus&#;), I had touched upon how a single fa
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From the Armenian Weekly Magazine Dedicated to the Centennial of the First Republic of Armenia
If you had told Aram Manoukian on March 6, , that within a decade he would successfully lead the defense of Van against the Ottoman military, save tens of thousands of Armenians from imminent murder, become the temporary governor of Van after the withdrawal of the Turkish forces, and then emerge as the founder of the First Armenian Republic as Tsarist Russia faltered, he probably would have had a good laugh. After all, that day seemed to usher in the end of Aram’s life as a free man—if not his life altogether—as Turkish policemen and soldiers dragged him out of a foot-deep well where he was hiding with fellow revolutionaries, and escorted them to the military commander’s residence, where they were interrogated, photographed, and sent to solitary confinement.
The story of what got Aram (née Sargis Hovhannisian) into that predicament, what got him out of it, and what turned him into th