An Armenian exile’s daughter who became one of the Soviet Union’s most celebrated performers, Tamara Khanum used dance to challenge patriarchy, embody cultural resistance, and redefine womanhood in Central Asia, even as her art was folded into the Soviet project.

A soulful and moving essay on inheritance, memory and survival, Ani Poghosyan traces her family’s story from the Armenian Genocide to the present, exploring how trauma endures across generations, not as memory alone, but as ritual, silence, and the quiet work of tending what remains.

In Armenia, where motherhood is revered and sacrifice expected, raising an autistic child exposes the gap between cultural ideals and lived reality. In this deeply personal essay, Ani Poghosyan explores identity, fear, resilience, and the invisible labor of mothers navigating autism in an unprepared system.

As peace negotiations with Azerbaijan and regional integration projects advance, biodiversity corridors could become vital connectors across fractured landscapes and divided societies. With Armenia preparing to host COP17, the urgency of protecting its extraordinary biodiversity amid mounting ecological and political threats takes center stage.

In “I Die Slowly Every Day”, Swedish journalist Rasmus Canbäck offers a rare, intimate account from Artsakh before its ethnic cleansing—a powerful testament to memory, resistance, and the journalist’s role amid silence and political erasure. Review by Ani Poghosyan.

In this poetic exploration of filmmaker Sergey Parajanov’s radical defiance against Soviet conformity, Ani Poghosyan traces how his visionary cinema, rooted in Armenian identity and artistic freedom, challenged empire, celebrated cultural memory, and outlived the system that sought to silence him.