Podcast

How do you teach one of history’s darkest chapters to new generations? Roxanne Makasdjian, co-founder and Executive Director of The Genocide Education Project (GenEd), joins EVN Report’s Maria Titizian to explore the initiative’s origins and its influence on how American educators approach the Armenian Genocide and human rights in the classroom. She also shares insights about GenEd’s Teacher Fellowship Program, an immersive experience that brings educators to Armenia to engage directly with the history and memory of genocide.

Հունաստանի և Մակեդոնիայի Նախկին Հարավսլավական Հանրապետության միջև տասնամյակներ տևած վեճը լուծվեց Պրեսպայի համաձայնագրով, որը պահանջում էր սահմանադրական հոդվածների և նախաբանի փոփոխություններ։ Ադրբեջանը ևս Հայաստանից պահանջում է սահմանադրական փոփոխություններ, սակայն արդյոք հնարավոր է հարցը լուծել Պրեսպայի օրինակով՝ մեկնաբանում է Ջորջ Մենեշեանը։

In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of August 22: Iran’s president makes his first official visit to Armenia; Armenia allocates $3.2 million to hire an international law firm to represent it at the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal and the Corruption Prevention Commission rules that PM Pashinyan twice violated the code of conduct in public statements.

Հայաստանի և Ադրբեջանի միջև խաղաղության համաձայնագրից զատ արդարադատության հասնելու տարբերակների մասին պատմող իրավաբան Գաբրիել Արմաս-Կարդոնայի հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը։

2026 is going to be quite the eventful year for Armenia, with parliamentary elections in June and the country hosting global events like COP17—the UN’s biodiversity summit—in October. To understand what COP17 means for Armenia, the preparations required and the challenges involved in hosting global negotiations about the future of the planet, we spoke with Tatiana Der Avedissian, head of business development for Economist Impact’s World Ocean Initiative, and sits on The Economist Group’s sustainability steering committee.

Իրանի շուրջ զարգացումների և Հարավային Կովկասի, մասնավորապես, Հայաստանի անվտանգության վրա դրա հավանական և ուղղակի ազդեցությունների մասին պատմող Աննա Գևորգյանի հոդվածի Ձայնագիրը։

In 2018, Canadian-Armenian screen and stage actress Arsinée Khanjian made headlines for her vociferous support of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution. It was to be her last major public appearance until only a few months ago—a long period marked by a life-threatening illness and vicious backlash following the 2020 Artsakh War. Reflecting on this traumatic experience, Khanjian made her return to the stage in the auto-fictional play, “Donation” directed by her creative and life partner Atom Egoyan. In an EVN Report exclusive, the actress breaks her silence on how her relationship to Armenian culture and her art have transformed over these past fateful years.

On April 25, renowned Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan premiered his first dramatic play “Donation” on the main stage of Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater. Specially commissioned by the theater’s artistic director Shermin Langhoff for the month-long festival “100+10-Armenian Allegories”, this autofictional two-hander starring Arsineé Khanjian delves into complex themes of artistic legacy, the slippages of memory and the ambivalent relationship between artists and art institutions. In this exclusive interview, Egoyan talks with Vigen Galstyan on the difficult process of writing and directing this deeply personal, yet sharply political opus.

In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of August 15: what the Washington Accords promise to bring to the South Caucasus; family of billionaire Samvel Karapetyan launches a $500 million investment arbitration against Armenia; as the Nubarashen landfill burns, the Yerevan Municipality announces plans for Armenia’s first waste recycling plant.

Political scientist, economist, author and public intellectual Cengiz Aktar, who spearheaded the landmark 2008 “I Apologize” campaign challenging the Turkish state’s official denial of the Armenian Genocide, speaks with piercing honesty in this episode of Up Close & Personal with EVN Report’s Maria Titizian. He reflects on Turkey’s politics, its fractured memory, and the enduring weight of “collective amnesia”. For Aktar, confronting the truth of the Genocide is not only a moral imperative; it is the key to breaking the nation’s cycle of repression.