I Promised Her Life: Q&A With Filmmaker Robert Nazar Arjoyan

I Promised Her Life: Q&A With Filmmaker Robert Nazar Arjoyan

Directed by Robert Nazar Arjoyan, “I Promised Her Life” is about how a grieving Armenian-American mother defies a centuries-old ritual and tests the limits of tradition as she walks thin line betwe...
Exclusive: Jose Mourinho joins Henrikh Mkhitaryan for Armenian Christmas dinner
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Exclusive: Jose Mourinho joins Henrikh Mkhitaryan for Armenian Christmas dinner

  ARA THE RAT EXCLUSIVE On the evening of Saturday January 6th, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho joined Henrikh Mkhitaryan for an Armenian Christmas dinner at his Manchester residence. Ha...
The Armenian-American Dracula That Never Was: The Story of Arthur Edmund Carew

The Armenian-American Dracula That Never Was: The Story of Arthur Edmund Carew

Audiences were intrigued by his “dark and mysterious look,” newspapers wrote about his brooding Armenian eyes that helped him play critically acclaimed roles no one else could. He was the first Arm...
Ross Bagdasarian & The Chipmunks: The Armenian Story Behind One of America’s Most Iconic TV Dads
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Ross Bagdasarian & The Chipmunks: The Armenian Story Behind One of America’s Most Iconic TV Dads

If you grew up in the 80s and 90s, Alvin and the Chipmunks was a permanent staple of your TV diet. And if you were an Armenian kid growing up in the diaspora, finding out Ross Bagdasarian created ...
How Armenian Immigrants Built an American Candy Empire

How Armenian Immigrants Built an American Candy Empire

  By Liana Aghajanian   This is a story about how six Armenian immigrants escaping looming atrocities in the Ottoman Empire, came to America and created a candy empire in small town Connecticut, wi...
Rock Aid Armenia: How Bonafide Rock Stars helped a Devastated Armenia

Rock Aid Armenia: How Bonafide Rock Stars helped a Devastated Armenia

  It was December of 1988 in snowy Armenia, but the cold wasn’t the only thing that brutalized the country that winter. At 11:41 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, a devastating earthquake measurin...
The Forgotten Armenians of Manchester
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The Forgotten Armenians of Manchester

After weeks of anticipation, Henrikh Mkhitaryan has become the first Armenia international footballer in the English Premier League, much to the excitement of Armenian communities everywhere acros...
Armenians Rule the U.S. Classic Animated Series
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Armenians Rule the U.S. Classic Animated Series

The following is a translated article written in response to our The Armenians of Springfield blog post by a website based in Azerbaijan. It was launched by an NGO called "For Human Rights" in 2011...
The Armenians of Springfield
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The Armenians of Springfield

The Simpsons has been running for 26 years and throughout that time a small number of unexpected Armenian references have been made. Here is a rundown of some of the familiar and not so familiar ...