Dzovinar Boghossian is a Lebanese Armenian singer, currently living in Yerevan.

"Breathe Ani" is the title of her CD (2007). "Im Ani" (My Ani) is a song about the ruins of ancient capital of Armenia. The main scenes of the video clip are shot in Western Armenia, in the area surrounding The Ani Cathedral. Other songs are Yerneg ays nor darin (Hopefully in this new year), Zartir vortiag (Wake up son), etc.

Click here to listen to 3 songs

I'd like to invite you to visit www.visitarmenia.org as there have been many changes/updates made. Check it out at your convenience and tell everyone you know to do the same. Please remember that your comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Thank you and don't forget "Visit Armenia, It Is Beautiful". Ara

You are invited to be among the firsts to see a new documentary on Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Artsakh "The Struggle for Freedom", which is now posted on our Artsakh Online YouTube Channel.

Produced by director Peter Musurlian of the Globalist Films, the film was first screened last month at a congressional event on Capitol Hill (Washington, DC, USA) "Nagorno Karabakh Republic/Artsakh: 20 Years of Freedom, Democracy, and Progress.".

Here is the link to watch The Struggle for Freedom or
http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtsakhOnline.

Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in the United States

Source: Noravank.am, 27 October 2008
http://www.noravank.am/en/?page=news&nid=1412

Vartan Ozinian, member of the Pro Edvacatio movement has written an interesting article about the Western Armenian language, its present situation and ways of promoting its usage.

Read the article here (PDF format, English) 

Pro Educatio is a Worldwide International movement which deals with educational matters – taking   into consideration social, economic and political dimensions of the cultural dynamics – together with geopolitical realities and related strategies for the development  of human resources, respectful to legitimacy and legal conditions.

The Pro Edvcatio’s G R T A S S E R E is a panel – constituted by ad hoc Armenians of Diaspora and non-Armenians – which deals with Armenian educational issues.

See Vartan Ozinian's profile here.

Several comments were posted on Karnig Sarkissian's artcile which appeared in Azad-Hye here. Below are samples of the comments:

Posted by Yeghig on Saturday, November 01, 2008 You were and are doing a good job with your website, so please keep on walking through the path you started and don't become a forum of meaningless talkings and discussions. You didn't find a better subject than Karnig's to discuss? or is it a trial for keeping your ratings high? Don't accept my comments negatively...

Posted by Abraham on Saturday, November 01, 2008 Ընդամէնը կ՛ուզեմ ըսել այս խնդիրը շահարկողներուն, որ յեղափոխական ոգիով սերունդներ դաստիարակած գործիչի պախարակման փորձերը դատապարտելի են: Ես ծանօթ եմ այս պատմութեան, չի հետաքրքեր մանրամասնութիւնները, մէկ բան պիտի ըսեմ ընդամէնը: Դաշնակցութեան հասցէին կատարուած իւրաքանչիւր մեղադրանք դատապարտելի է ու անհեթեթութիւն: Բոլոր անոնք որոնք կ՛ուզեն պղտոր ջուրի մէջ ձուկ բռնել ու այս ամբողջ հարցը կապել կուսակցութեան հետ, աւելի լաւ է չխօսիմ, քանի եթէ իրենց կուսակցական պատկանելիութեան մասին խօսելու ըլլամ, կրնայ ըլլալ տակէն դուրս չ՛ելլեն: Ամօթ է հայեր, ընկեր Գառնիկի տարած գործին քառորդը ըրէ՛ք եւ յետոյ միայն բարոյական իրաւունք վերապահեցէ՛ք ձեզի՝ նման գնահատականներ տալու: Խօսքս հաւասարաչափ կը վերաբերի նաեւ հայկական մամուլի էջերուն վրայ այս խնդիրը ծամօն դարձուցած յօդուածագիրներուն կամ խմբագիրներուն: Լրջացէ՛ք:

Posted by Harout on Saturday, November 01, 2008 Ձայնս կը միացնեմ Եղիկին: Ես «Ազատ-հայը» կը ճանչնամ որպէս աւելի լուրջ բովանդակութեամբ եւ աւելի մեծ ու հեռանկարային լրատուամիջոց մը, ոչ որպէս սկանտալային նիւթերով զբաղող ակումբ մը: Մեկնաբանութեամբս մէկու մը վիրաւորանք պատճառելու ցանկութիւնը չունիմ, բայց պարզապէս մեր ժողովուրդին մէջ արմատացած բամբասանքի օղակները լայնցնելուն համամիտ չեմ: Յաջողութեան լաւագոյն մաղթանքներով, Յարութ

Posted by Serine on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 There is nothing wrong with this kind of news in Azad-Hye. If we have feelings about special individual or subjects it doesn’t mean a news medium can’t publish it. We were getting this news back and forth by anonymous emails and hearing different things. This is news which has spread everywhere and we cannot say because we don’t like it therefore it shouldn’t be published. Karnig Sarkissian is a well know Armenian singer so it’s very natural that whatever happens in his life, the news will be all over Armenian communities. Even I saw a three part interview with Karnig in YouTube which was later removed. Everybody has different judgment and we need not mix up the feelings and the reality together after all. Regards Serine

I agree with you NANOR. I am happy that he changed his name and is without (ian) now. At first I would like to say that Appig was from Aleppo and we were at the same school (Karen Yeppe Jemaran) and I think he did not graduate. It is not a shame of course if somone becomes a famous singer or artist in another country, but its very awefull to deny your past and your nation as ARMENIAN. Wherever I go, wherever I live I am always proud that my heart is pumping Armenian blood inside my nerves and I am always proud with my history, my roots. By the way, it is wrong to compare Avraam with AZNAVOUR. They are two completely different classes.

Read more about Avraam Russo here:

Avraam Russo, a Syrian Armenian who realizes fame in Russia

I've just listened Avraam Russo on a Turkish live TV show program (Star TV). He said his father was from GAZIANTEP, a city in Turkey. He was speaking fluent Turkish. Especially the Turkish song he sang was so beautiful! I must admit I never listened that song so nicely from any other singer!

Read more about Avraam Russo here:

Avraam Russo, a Syrian Armenian who realizes fame in Russia

The son of Armenian Genocide survivor. Born in Jerusalem and educated at the College des Frčres, Professor Manuel Hassassian left Palestine for brief periods after his high school years to pursue his higher education, earning his BA in Political Science from the American University of Beirut in 1975, his MA in International Relations from Toledo University, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1976 and his PhD in Comparative Politics from University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1986. 

In an interview with Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi, the Chairman of the "Arab Media Watch", Hassassian says: "I can strike a lot of parallels between Armenia and Palestine at all levels. To maintain our presence until now, despite wars, occupation, 70 years of communism, and to get an independent Armenia, brings hope that one day Palestinians will get their independence."

Read more in our Directory section.

By clicking on the following link, you can enjoy a beautiful song performed by Iranian singer, Shahkar Bineshpajooh, and a Spanish singer.

This is a fantastic duet. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Yerevan Symphony Orchestra play the music.

http://www.shahkar.net/mimiram_high_quality.wmv

Comment posted after article: Bus crash kills 17 Armenian tourists

As a tour operator and coordinator I feel your pain, especially to the agency who coordinated this tour. May your burden be light and may God grant the survivors the strength and patience to overcome their pain and grief.

Azad-Hye covers subjects in English, Armenian and Arabic languages.

Usually we receive articles in one of the above languages, but there is always the need to make the articles accessible in the other two languages. This is the idea behind the Sponsor an Article project.

The project is not restricted to translations only; it also covers creative works and original writings in the same three languages.

How does it work?

TRANSLATIONS:

1- Choose an article for translation either from Azad-Hye website or from other external sources. The article should be consistent with the main topics covered by Azad-Hye.

2- Indicate the language in which you would like to see the article being translated (English, Armenian and Arabic).

3- Ask for sponsorship rates for translating the particular article by professional translator. The rate depends on the number of pages or the word count.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES:

1- Choose a subject you would like to see published. The subject should be related to the Armenian reality. Subjects from the Middle East Armenian communities are most welcome.

2- Indicate the language in which you would like the article to appear (English, Armenian or Arabic).

3- Ask for sponsorship rates (as above).

IMPORTANT NOTE: YOUR NAME WILL BE MENTIONED AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE AS A SPONSOR.

Contact us and sponsor an article. The rates are very reasonable.

Photo: Mesrob Mashdots and Goriun in front of Old Manuscripts Museum (Matenadaran) in Yerevan (Azad-Hye collection, 2000).

The movie portrays the fragile remains of a torture survivor, Hanna (Sarah Polley) from the Bosnian conflict. A burn unit nurse by training, she has gone through a counseling center in Copenhagen where her torture was documented by Inge (Julie Christie), and then made her way to work in Great Britain in a factory. She has post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, including compulsive behavior (stacks of bars of soap), is hearing impaired (nearly deaf without a hearing aid on) and lives her life completely alone, attending to work every day, taking no sick leave or holidays. The union complains so she is directed to take a holiday.

She goes to a seacoast village and overhears an oil company manager discussing the need for a live-in nurse for a burned oil platform worker on site in the North Sea. She volunteers to help, and begins to care for Josef (Tim Robbins) who is temporarily blind and has face and arm burns from fighting a rig fire. He coaxes her story of torture from her, feeling the cuts scars on her chest in a remarkably poignant moment of truth. After he is transferred to hospital, she goes back to the factory. He talks to Inge and realizes the depth of suffering and the guilt of torture victims who survive. A moving love story, beautifully done, and unforgetable character development, and a happy ending (if there can be one). (Source: synopsis by imdb.com)

Approximately 20 minutes before the end of the movie one of the actors makes the following quote:

"Before the holocaust, Adolf Hitler called all of his collaborators together and in order to convince them that he could get away with his plan he asked them who remembers the extermination of the Armenians? That's what he said. Thirty years later nobody remembered the million Armenians exterminated in the cruelest possible way. Ten years letter, who remembers what happened in the Balkans; the survivors." (click here to see the webpage with the video clip).

Azad-Hye introduces a new folder to cover the news of Armenians in the West Bank (Palestinian Authority) and Israel. Until the final demarcation of the border between the two sides (Palestinians and Israelis) it will not be possible to know under whose control the Armenians of Old Jerusalem will eventually come.

Obviously, the Armenian Quarter in Old Jerusalem will be a subject of negotiations at the final stages, before signing the much-awaited peace accord. The two sides are very far from that day, especially now that the US and Israeli leadership are changing (Presidential elections in the United States are due in November 2008, while a new Isreali Prime Minister will come to power soon).

The new folder is called Holy Land Armenians. It is updated with the following news:

The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem continues to live up to its legacy

Living in Jerusalem's Old City

Computerizing the archives of Jerusalem Patriarchate

Fight in the Church of Nativity

Interview with Father Issahag Minasyan in Jerusalem

The Armenians in East Jerusalem and Haifa

Keeping the traditions of Kutahya Armenians

Peering through a lens into Jerusalem's past

President Abbas: “We and the Armenians suffered of historical difficulties” 

Beautiful...These days, I really long to visit Armenia... walk in the streets, observe the people, blend with everything because everything there is part of ourselves...

I did not go to work today. I made my coffee and started reading articles...Once I came across Samvel's, I was very impressed and for some reason I felt I was sitting in one of the wonderful cafes in Yerevan, breathing coffee brewing, listening to Armenian jazz and reading this article...

How wonderful can an experience such this one be? Being nostalgic and reading an interesting article as this.

Thumbs up!!

Read the article about Samvel Bedrosian here.

Comment on article: Lena Kelekian wins gold medal at international exhibition of art in China during the Olympic Games

Lena Kelekian, as I know her, is the Queen of the artwork. Our congratulations. We are not at all surprised, we simply are honored by sharing with Lena and her noble family this great achievement.

Best wishes from Los Angelos 

Tachdjian family

Below is a list of articles recently posted in www.keghart.com that may interest you:
 
The Caucasus Moment by Vartan Oskanian, Yerevan
 
Six Months and Counting by Dikran Abrahamian, Ontario
 
The Need For A Generational Change (In Armenian) by Haig Naccashian, Montreal
 
Declaration of ARF Bureau on Georgia, South Caucasus Conflict
 
Fascists Among Us by Ara Baliozian, Kitchener, Ontario
 
Post Election Developments - The Way Out: A Scientific Study Prepared by Policy Forum Armenia, Summer 2008
 
A Tradition Still Alive in the Turkish Press by By Ayse Gunaysu, Istanbul
 
The Drive to Secede: Georgian Provinces Likely to Join Russia By Eric Margolis, Toronto
 
Truth Was The First Casualty by Avedis Kevorkian, Philadelphia, PA
 
Please check the Visitors' Comments section specially for a lively exchange
between Professor Hovhannes I. Pilikian and Avedis Kevorkian
 
Respectfully,
 
Dikran Abrahamian BA, MD

By Ara S. Ashjian
An Iraqi Armenian settled in Yerevan, Armenia

Father Torkom is the name of the newest priest of the Iraqi Armenian Orthodox Church.

The celebrant of the Divine Liturgy and ordaining bishop was His Eminence Archbishop Avak Asadourian, the Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of Iraq.

Father Torkom is the former deacon Vartan Torkomian. The ordination took place at St. Mary Mother of God Church in the southern city of Basra on 21-22 August 2008.

At the end of the sermon, His Eminence Archbishop Avak Asadourian congratulated the newly ordained priest wishing him long and prosperous years to serve in a better way our ancient Church and the faithful put under his care.

Posted 29 August 2008

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On January 2008 in the supplement titled "They made History" by Larousse Editions and La Nación newspaper, Mustafá Kemal Ataturk who continued the Genocide of Armenians and the practice of incorporating historical Armenian territories in modern-day Turkey, was included among distinguished personalities who have been influential in the history of Humanity, setting him at an equal level with names such as Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.
 
The International Armenian Network has started an online campaign in coordination with the Armenian National Committee of South America, urging the Larousse Editions to revise this serious mistake.

Click here to add your name:
http://www.ian.cc/notas/accion_pro.php?id=26
 
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Armenian Communities in Latin America
Contact: iancontactos@yahoo.com

Rev. Fr. Barouyr Sarkissian (now deceased) was originally from Lebanon.

He served the Armenian Community in Kuwait from early 1960s to late 1990s as parish pastor and teacher of "religion" in the Armenian School.

The prelacy library in Salmiya is named after him.

His children and especially Keri Sarkissian are active members of the community.

In an interview with David Zenian (published in the February 2004 issue of AGBU magazine) Father Sarkissian described the situation of the Armenian community in Kuwait after the Gulf War (1991). Below are excerpts from the interview where Father Sarkissian gives also a historical account on the presence of the Armenians in Kuwait. 

- Kuwait is not the same [after the Gulf War], and probably the Armenian community here will not be the same again too ... We were down to a mere 500 Armenians during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990. After the liberation, we opened our school with only 90 students. Today the Armenian community numbers about 2,500 — and slowly growing. The Armenian school this year has 298 students. 

- Thank God it all started in the middle of summer. The school was closed and the children safe. Maybe only a few thousand Armenians were in Kuwait, and most of them were working men. With the occupation in place, most of them left by road to Baghdad and then on to their home countries. Read more...

Born in Beirut (1948), Armen Kouyoumdjian completed his studies in Applied Statistics at the Sorbonne in Paris, prior to moving to London in 1970. For 20 years, he worked in the City, specialising first in Europe, and then in Latin America, as a Countrry Risk Analyst at the International Mexican Bank, where he was assistant managing director and head of research.

In early 1991, he moved with his Spanish wife and two sons to Vińa del Mar Chile, from where he has been operating an independent consultancy on Country Risk, financial and insurance markets, as well as regional defence and geopolitical aspects.

Kouyoumdjian writes for various specialist publications round the world and is a regular contributor to radio and tv programmes.

He is active in Armenian affairs and responsible for internationla and cultural cativities for Chile's Armenian community.

Since 1997, he sponsors the Avemaria choir in Yerevan, and travels regularly to Armenia.

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