Through a series of unfinished questions, photographer Vaghinak Ghazaryan’s photo essay explores the lasting emotional imprint of the 44-day war on the soldiers who lived through it, tracing memory, loss and the difficult process of carrying war into everyday life.
Yerevan’s Hrazdan River embodies the city’s contradictions: beauty and neglect, belonging and exclusion, ecological loss and fragile possibilities for coexistence, public life and environmental consciousness. In this personal observation, Taline Oundjian looks at what the river reveals about the city itself.
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.
Marking April 24, Narine Vlasyan speaks with Michele Wegner, son of Armin Wegner, one of the key eyewitnesses of the Armenian Genocide, about memory, moral courage, and the burden of bearing witness, then and now, and the haunting question of why so few chose to truly see.
From refuge to power, and now to uncertainty, Lebanon’s Armenians built a remarkable “state within a state.” Arno Khlgatian explores how it emerged, endured war and upheaval, and what its gradual decline reveals about the future of diaspora identity and influence.
A young doctor’s death from advanced gastric cancer reflects a troubling shift in Armenia, where cancers are increasingly diagnosed late and at younger ages. As cases rise, limited screening, delayed detection and unequal access to modern treatments are straining patients, families and the healthcare system.
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.
Challenging the notion that mothers on maternity leave or outside formal employment are “economically inactive”, Hasmik Soghomonyan examines Armenia’s invisible care economy, and argues that unpaid caregiving and early childhood development are vital investments sustaining families, society and long-term economic growth.
Nearly half a century later, Ararat-73 still looms large in Armenia’s collective memory. More than a football triumph, the team embodied national pride under “apricot socialism,” blending Soviet structure with Armenian identity and leaving behind a legacy that continues to shape nostalgia, culture and belonging.
A portrait of Noratus fishermen on Lake Sevan reveals nights of cold, risk and fragile livelihoods, following Armen and Vardan as they navigate storms, shrinking catches and limited choices, capturing a community bound to the lake for survival and dignity.
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