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| Armenian Church in Singapore: Weather-worn? |
Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
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 On 13 July 2008 Singapore's main daily "The Straits Times", has published an article titled: "Preserving our heritage", in which reference is made, amongst several historical landmarks in the island, to the Armenian Church. The comment goes as follows:
WEATHER-WORN? Armenian Church of St Gregory the Illuminator.
Location: 60, Hill Street (gazetted on July 6, 1973).
Significance: Built between 1835 and 1836, it is the oldest Christian church here and was built by the early Armenian migrants - a small, pious and wealthy community. Named after a 4th-century monk, the church is sometimes used for Russian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox services.
Preservation challenges: With such an old building, you always want to be careful. The materials used in the past have been subject to weathering and might not hold up as well.
Read also in Azad-Hye:
Letter from Jack Salatian about his latest visit to Singapore Armenian Church (2003)
A history of the Armenian Church in Singapore
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| Javakhk project by Ararat Center |
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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 ARARAT Center for Strategic Research is pleased to inform you about the new stage of its Javakhk project.
The Javakhk archive offers news, facts, analyses and publications on a broad range of issues. It contains a large amount of information and analyses on the socio-economic, political, cultural and demographic situation in this strategically important Armenian-populated region.
We believe that this new internet-resourse will be useful for the Armenian decision-makers as well as the public at large for better identification and deeper understanding of the urgent problems awaiting solutions in Javakhk.
Click here for the Javakhk archive webpage.
Source: News Release by "Ararat Center for Strategic Research", Yerevan, 15 July 2008
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| Camp Nubar summer program for Armenian youth |
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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Located in Andes, New York, AGBU Camp Nubar offers two to six week sessions for campers and the administration offers a full range of sports, educational and cultural programs.
Active camp alumni serve on various management committees and others upon reaching the age of sixteen to eighteen serve as counselors.
In recent years, through contributions from generous donors, Camp Nubar in New York has undergone extensive renovation of its cabins and built a new center to house its dining room and a variety of cultural activities.
www.campnubar.org
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| Kuwait: Sheikh Saad bin Abdullah Al Sabah deceased |
Monday, May 19, 2008 |
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The Armenians of Kuwait expressed their deep sorrow for the demise of the late Emir Sheikh Saad bin Abdullah Al Sabah, who died at age 78, on 13 May 2008.
A ceremony took place on Friday, 16 May 2008 in the Armenian Church in Salmiya district, with the presence of big number of Armenians.
Rev. Ardag Kehyeyan presided the prayers and delivered a sermon in which he praised the great deeds of the late Emir and his special attention and care towards the Armenian community.
Photos from the ceremony
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Rev. Ardag Kehyeyan heads the prayers |
Part of the audience |
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| Iraq: Searching for relatives (Boudarian family) |
Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
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We received the following message from an Iraqi of Armenian origin who is looking for his relatives worldwide:
Good morning if it was morning and good afternoon if it was afternoon.
I would like to ask your help in seaching my relatives who live in far countries. I am originally from Iraq and now live outside Iraq. I have large number of relatives abroad, but I do not know their addresses.
I belong to the Armenian Boudarian clan from Turkey and specifically from Izmit. My father's and grandfather's family immigrated in 1915 during the Turkish deporation (safar barlek). I do not know the addresses of my relatives. Would you please lead me to them. I am Muslim now but the search for blood relatives is a duty as mentioned in our rightous religion. I would be very grateful if you send me anything you come across about my origins to my e-mail address.
I express my sincere gratitude, appreciation and respect.
Memo Zarin Hagop Boudarian
Iraq
E-mail: memo_sunny4@yahoo.com
Read original letter in Arabic here.
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| France: Once again an Armenian Genocide Monument desecrated |
Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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 The Memorial of the Valence city erected to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was desecrated in the night from 14 to May 15, 2008. An illegible inscription in black was written on the monument's base. The Armenian Community placed a complaint to the authorities.
In November 2005, Valence has been the theater of skirmishes between the Turkish and Armenian communities.
Since january 2008, 7 Armenian memorials are vandalized around the world: Saint-Chamond, Creteil, Lyon, Valence (France); Cardiff (UK.), Budapest (Hungria) and Lviv (Ukraine).
Jean Eckian
Paris
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360
| Song dedicated to Lebanese Armenians |
Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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"WE LIVE HERE" by Ghassan Rahbani
Just a background note, the artist (lyrics, music and performance) is Ghassan Mansour Rahbani, the son of one of the greatest Lebanese musicians the Elias and Mansour Rahbani Brothers who had brought Lebanese music, musicals and songs to international level. Some of you already know the Lebanese greatest singer Feirouz, who is the wife of Elias Rahbani.
Ghassan wrote this song last year when there were open verbal attacks against Armenians in Lebanon after the by-elections. Only recently was the video clip made. By the way, the young generation of the Rahbanis use an Orchestra from Armenia for most of their concerts and musical theater, whether in Baalbeck (Lebanon) or in the Arab Gulf.
For those who don't know Arabic or Lebanon: The first part of the song is in Arabic - which mainly says something to the effect that we, who know mysery and martyrdom and were deported from our lands, arrived in Lebanon. We left behind our lands, songs, culture, etc. to live in Lebanon and to build a nation, etc. The statue you see is the one in Bikfaya (hillside "suburb" of Beirut, a few minutes' drive from Antelias) dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. The rest is in Bourj Hammoud and Lebanon in general
The second half is in Armenian, and I guess you all understand what he's saying. It's amazing how well he pronounces the Armenian words.
Enjoy.
Katia Peltekian
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| Iraq: Message from Shant Atanosian |
Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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It's really a very nice and good thing trying to connect all the Armenian fellows over the Middle East. I wish you all the best and luck in your duty.
Actually I am from Baghdad, Iraq. Our Armenian community here is trying to survive under this difficult situation, that we are facing as a country. Despite these difficulties the Armenian associations here are trying to give the best to the Armenians here: We have the Yerdasartants Association, Homenetmen Club and Parikordzagan Association.
I'm one of the associates in the Yerdasartats Association in Baghdad.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any enquiries.
Thank you and may god bless all Armenians.
Shant Atanosian (Email)
Finance Dep./ Logistics/ Senior specialist
Desk :- +964 7901 902 145
Ext :- 2145
www.zain.com
15 May 2008
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| Article on the Armenian Genocide and UN |
Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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We have the privilage to publish the updated article by Prof. Alfred de Zayas entitled "The Genocide against the Armenians 1915-1923 and the relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention". The article aims to discussing the issues such as "what does the UN Convention of 1948 say about the Armenian Genocide? Can one refrain from recognising the Armenian Genocide 1915 since the UN Convention did not exist until 1948? Does the present Turkey have any obligations regarding the act of genocide committed by Ottoman Turkey?
Alfred de Zayas is Professor of international law, Geneva School of Diplomacy Member New York, Florida Bar, retired former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee, retired former Chief of Petitions at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights.
Please visit http://www.armenica.org to read the article in its whole.
We hope that you will find the new addition intersting and useful.
With best regards,
Armenica Editorial Staff
admin@armenica.org
http://www.armenica.org
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| Comment posted by Nadeem Khoury |
Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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Comment on article: Armenian Lebanese solidarity song by Gassan Rahbani
Dear Ghassan,
Marvelous work. Thanks a lot.
N. Khoury
(75% Armenian, 25% Arab Palestinian)
Director, Satellite Communications Department
HICAP Telecom Co. Ltd.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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| Lebanese opposition supporters burn the headquarters of Radio Sevan in Beirut |
Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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By Katia Peltekian
BEIRUT: May 10, 2008. - At noon today, supporters of the Lebanese opposition, which includes Hezbollah, Amal and other movements, burned the offices of the newly established Armenian radio station "Sevan" in the Mar Elias area in Beirut.
This comes a day after pro-government media offices were forced to close down and then set on fire. Future TV, Future News, Radio Orient, Future Newspaper (all of which are owned by the Hariri family) in addition to Al-Lewa' newspaper offices were targets yesterday by anti-government millitants.
Details about today's attack on the Armenian "Radio Sevan" have not been made public yet.
Radio sevan's website: http://www.radiosevan.com/
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| Nestle apologises to Azerbaijan |
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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Food giant Nestle faces a boycott in Azerbaijan after information about countries around the world on a CD-ROM given away with a breakfast cereal caused outrage there.
The CD-ROM said that Azerbaijan had started a war against neighbouring Armenia and that the hotly disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh belonged to Armenia.
The BBC reports that the Swiss-based multinational food company has issued a formal apology to Azerbaijan, withdrawn the cereal and promised to seize the offending CDs.
The Azeri government vowed to take action, and there has been widespread talk of a public boycott, despite Nestle's apology.
Source: Newsroom America, 03 May 2008, New Zealand
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| Comment posted by Kevork |
Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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Comment in forum: Turkish Armenians: How should we call them?
Any individual that has the right to vote and hold that country's passport, native or adopted, he or she belong to that country's first, since he or she will be serving that countries flags no matter thier origin.
No exception with the Armenians of Turkey, they should be called Turkish Armenians, since, all males have or will be serving the Turkish flag. Being a Turkish, African or Chinese Armenians will not make them less Armenian than the rest of us. We are very proud of each individual that recognizes himself / herself as Armenian or feels proud to be Armenian.
Regards,
Kevork
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| Armenian IT online journal |
Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
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The 4th issue of the first Armenian online IT monthly journal "Inch ka chka?" is available now.
Click here to download the file (PDF format).
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| New additions in Mashtoz wesite (3 PDF format files) |
Saturday, April 26, 2008 |
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Three new documents are added in www.mashtoz.org website.
They are:
01. Saghmosaz grqi endhanur neratzutyun (18 p.)
02. Saghmosnere (18 p.)
03. Karevor aghotq (1 p.)
Mashtoz Vahe Lazaryan
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| Comment by Boghos Mardirossian (Kuwait( |
Friday, April 25, 2008 |
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Comment on forum: Are we good survivors? At what expense did we survive?
I think you are absolutely right. Hard work of survival change our human behavior and that is reflecting on our daily family and work life.
I think we miss social psychology analysis, which will study post Genocide behaviorism in Armenian communities and mainly in Western Armenia origin families.
I often asked myself why the faces of Armenians in Armenia look very sad and seem all the problems of the world are on their shoulder as they say in Armenian language.
When I see the faces of Swiss people, I feel different face outlook. They are of course different not in the sense of the genetic, but rather in terms of general positive and happy face outlook.
I think it is a good case study and we need positive and happy looking people faces
Boghos Mardirossian
Kuwait
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| Hasmik Leyloyan: The Queen of the Armenian Kanon |
Sunday, April 20, 2008 |
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 The name of famous kanon (qanon) player Hasmik Leyloyan is already known to a wide range of audience. She perfectly possesses the expressive techniques of this instrument and demonstrates a unique ability to perform both national and classical difficult compositions.
Leyloyan was born in Yerevan. After completing Armen Tigranyan School of Music she studied in the Romanos Melikyan College of Music. In 1981 she graduated from the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. Soon after that she began working at the Chair of National Instruments of the same institution as an instructor. She has undertaken a wide range of concert and teaching activities since 1970s. She co-worked with various musicians: Ara Gevorgyan, Karen Durgaryan, Yervand Yerznkyan, Nikolay Kalinin, Ara Ghazaryan and others. In 1974 during a concert she presented improvisations and instrumentations of a number of difficult classical pieces on Kanon, thus drawing the attention of the audience to this instrument.
The gifted kanon player composed a text-book on kanon techniques, and compiled a number of collections on musical training and methods. She created beautiful compositions and replaced the part of piano with kanon in many works. She has many radio and TV audio tapes, as well as several laser discs.
In 2006 she founded a quartet of kanon players with Narine Malkhasyan, Armine Asatryan and Susanna Avetisyan.
"Venice Carnival" by Hasmik Leyloyan 
Azad-Hye radio 
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| Light the Night on the Eve of April 24 |
Sunday, April 20, 2008 |
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On the eve of April 24th, we encourage to "Light the Night" by lighting a candle through the night of the 23rd and into the morning of the 24th, in remembrance of the 1.5 million souls that fell victim to the annihilation machine of the Ottoman Empire. Each lit candle placed on the window sill will represent a soul lost throughout the years of 1915 and 1923.
Together, let's "Light the Night"; let's vow to remember, to never forget, and to pursue justice and peace for all humanity. Visit http://www.armenica.org/light-the-night for further information and campaign material. Help us spreading the light by forwarding this campaign message to your contacts.
The "Light the Night" campaign is a joint world wide campaign driven by Armenica.org and ArmeniaDiaspora.com and was launched for the first time in 2005 during the 90th remembrance day of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
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| The memories of a Swedish diplomat Einar af Wirsen on the Armenian Genocide. |
Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute presents the memories of a Swedish diplomat Einar af Wirsen on the Armenian Genocide.
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| Cyprus: Fund raising campaign for Hay Tad |
Friday, April 11, 2008 |
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The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus (Gibrosi Hay Tadi Hantsnakhoump) has initiated a Fund Raising campaign to support local and European Hay Tad activities.
Lotteries are being sold for 10 euros each and winners will receive valuable prizes.
The Armenian National Committee of Cyprus appeals to all Cypriots for support.
The draw will take place on June 8, 2008
Source: GIBRAHAYER e-magazine, 11 April 2008
www.gibrahayer.comCirculates every Wednesday. Established in 1999.
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