by Christine Garibian | Aug 2, 2023 | Essay
“Clouds are not spheres, Mountains are not cones, Coastlines are not circles, And bark is not smooth, Nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” ― Benoît B. Mandelbrot Reality is far less smooth than we’d like to believe. In our quest to represent complex...
by Christopher Atamian, Ara Oshagn | Aug 2, 2023 | Essay
That place. A liminal space. A mythic place. A space which links present to imagined past and propels you into an unfathomable future. The great cities of Cilicia are all here: Adiyaman, Mardin, Marash, Adana, Sis. Millennial castles rise straight out of clear water...
by James Najarian | Nov 10, 2021 | Essay
I have not been fond of the Americans I have met. Most of the brothers in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem are from the Republic of Armenia, with a small number from Turkey and Europe. I myself was sent here from the town of Goris at fourteen. Goris is not far from...
by Elizabeth Mkhitarian | Jan 31, 2021 | Essay
The Soviet era takes space in your home in the form of comic relief. It blares from your iPad each morning through a pipe-smoking wolf in Ну,погоди (2) and a sirening sing-song sound of Фильм, Фильм,Фильм (3). Your niece is rewatching the ‘68 depictions of Soviet...
by Grigor Nemet | Jul 25, 2020 | Essay
“Oh, Armenian people, your only salvation lies in the power of your unity.” – Yeghishe Charents As the world navigates the uncertainty of a global pandemic, authoritarian power structures worldwide are using the fog of a crisis to strike at...
by E. Kostanyan | Jun 4, 2020 | Essay
Hyer jan, tzavneret tanem, Look, I get it, it’s not easy speaking to your family about race. It is only very recently that we have been forced to examine the anti-blackness within our own people. And boy, is there a lot of it. And boy, is it uncomfortable. Please,...