 Liana Sayadyan
We are Fulfilling Hrant Dink’s Mission
[September 22, 2008]
Last week, Gayaneh Chalukian-Gavrilov and Yulker Unjo, representing the Istanbul-based “Sayat-Nova” Armenian song troupe and the Turkish “Kardes Turkuler” ensemble, paid a two day visit to Armenia.
The two are preparing for a joint concert to take place in December in Yerevan’s Opera’ House as well as in the town of Vanadzor. The interview “Hetq” conducted with them included a discussion of the upcoming unprecedented joint Armenian-Turksih concert, their view on President Gul’s recent trip to Armenia and Armenian-Turkish relations in general.
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Edik Baghdasaryan
The Water Tastes like Rust
[September 01, 2008]
He departed this world in May of 1994. Throughout the trenches there was mud, a yellowish mud, thick and viscous.
The shots heard overhead were now scattered, the lingering gunfire that still continues even after a ceasefire had bee declared. He was seated in his bunker, or what passed as one. Outside, dirt was piled up along the structure while inside, dilapidated cement stakes pulled from the vineyards were stacked along with a variety of wood beams.
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Edik Baghdasaryan
The General
[August 18, 2008]
Exhausted by the blows that life had dealt him, the General decided to put an end to his life. He had realized that he was no longer much good for anything. At first, he decided to close off the street he lived on so that passersby wouldn’t see the worn out state he was in. For him, the world was a curse and all the people in it traitors. He closed off the street. Now, casual people and cars wouldn’t be passing by his house.
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 Lena Nazaryan
Metzamor -An Archeological Site Awaiting Further Excavation
[August 04, 2008]
At the beginning of the 1960’s a group of young archeologists and geologists unearthed a large quantity of remains forged from a variety of metals while excavating a site along the banks of the Metzamor River in the area of the Taronik village in the Armavir Marz.
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 Edik Baghdasaryan , Hrant Gadarigian
[July 28, 2008]
While visiting Istanbul, Gayaneh Chalukian and her husband Jan Gavrilof invited us to the 15th anniversary concert of the “Kardes Turkuler” ensemble. The concert took place in the huge “Arena” open-air theater on the shores of the Bosporus. Leman Sami also sang the Armenian song “Bingyol”. The Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, and Romany, (Gypsy) songs literally rocked the arena to its pillars.
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Alexander Melkonyan (Sasha)
[May 12, 2008]
Alexander Melkonyan was born in 1952 in a third generation family of soldiers.
In 1972 after graduating the Department of Sculpture of the Art College he began working at the Art Production Company where he mastered all stages of ceramic production. In 1976 he entered the Department of Ceramics and Decorative Sculpture of Yerevan Art and Theater University.
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 Hasmik Hovhannisyan
The Spirit Soars When the Right Chords are Struck
[February 04, 2008]
When opened, the common gray door gives way to a small room no more than 12 square meters in size. A cat, with eyes closed, is curled up in a ball next to a non-functioning electric heater. The room’s other resident is a dog brought from Tibet belonging to an unpronounceable breed. The dog leaps upon me out of the obvious pleasure that my visit has engendered.
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 Hasmik Hovhannisyan
The Man Who Makes Duduks for Djivan Gasparyan
[January 21, 2008]
Hovsep Grigoryan has been making duduks for more than fifty years. The varpet (master craftsman) was born in 1928 in the village of Sepasar in the region of Ghukasyan, the eldest out of nine children.
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 Hasmik Hovhannisyan
Bodil Biorn - An Unsung Heroine
[December 10, 2007]
"When we finished shooting the film," said Jussi Flemming Biorn, "The director, who had been an atheist all his life, said, 'I now have no choice but to believe in God.' I thought that it could not have been any other way - throughout the shoot there had been all sorts of lucky 'coincidences', even miracles, as if someone up above truly wanted this movie to be completed. Throughout production, it seemed as if we always ended up in the right place at the right time."
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 Shushan Harutyunyan
The Three Extremes of Armenian Rock Music
[November 19, 2007]
“Some of the guys from my college class gave me a guitar for my birthday and things just took off.” This is how Narek, a 4th year student at Yerevan’s Medical University, describes how the story all began. “ Some of my guitar-playing friends gave me some pointers and I was soon playing on my own.”
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 Tigran Paskevichyan
The Best Gift is Money, the Best Investment is Financial
[October 22, 2007]
Weeks ago, a group of Diaspora Armenians, a few art experts and a dozen representatives of the cultural scene were saying their final farewell to artist Markos Grigorian at the Chamber Music Hall.
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 Tigran Paskevichyan
Everyday Immortality
[September 10, 2007]
“Now we can definitely say that Armenians played a significant role in the development of photography in the Middle East,” said photographer Vahan Kochar. He is the editor and publisher of the Encyclopedia of Armenian Photographers that was recently published in Yerevan.
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Hasmik Hovhannisyan
Screamers
[April 23, 2007]
The problem with genocide is you cannot kill them all; there are always survivors.
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Armenia’s Architectural Language: Getting Lost in Translation
[April 16, 2007]
WATERTOWN, Mass.—Jane Britt Greenwood has seen some of Armenia's struggles first-hand. An associate dean at the College of Architecture, Art, and Design at Mississippi State University, Greenwood and her husband went to Armenia after the earthquake of 1988 to assist in the establishment of the American University of Armenia (AUA).
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Vahe Sarukhanyan
“In Iran, they do what they can to restore them. In Azerbaijan and Georgia, they do what they can to destroy them.”
[March 12, 2007]
How many Armenian architectural monuments are there in the liberated territories adjacent to Nagorno Karabakh?
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Hasmik Hovhannisyan
Speghani Choir: Bearers of Armenian Song
[February 19, 2007]
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