A Story of Our Times

By Armineh Johannes Omar Sharif was breathless from running after a departing train at Paris’ Austerlitz station. “Are you tired,” I asked. “No,” replied Sharif. “Hagop is tired!” The star of such block busters as Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago was shooting a scene from his latest film,Mayrig, the story of an Armenian family
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Art: What Aivazovsky brought to light; Inspired public relations effort revives interest in Armenian marine painter from the Crimea who died 90 years ago

By Janet Samuelian His name is currently in eclipse in Western art circles, and at Sotheby’s the occasional Aivazovsky earns a paltry $80,000. Yet, in 1842 Hovhannes Aivazian was becoming an internationally famous 25-year-old from southern Russia. His magnificent Italian landscapes made him the talk of Europe. Turner, the aging English artist, was so influenced
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Cover story: Anatomy of a genocide; Turkish Strategies That Led To Atrocities Of 1915

By Christopher J. Walker In some respects, Armenians and Turks had been getting along rather well in the years before the Genocide of 1915. Armenians had played a significant part in bringing about the Ottoman constitutional revolution of 1908; in the years immediately following, many Armenians returned to Turkish Armenia from Russian Armenia, where conditions remained repressive
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