Balakian Is Seventh Recipient of Spendlove Prize for Social Justice

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Editor

MERCED, Calif. — Peter Balakian became the seventh recipient of the Spendlove Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance and Diplomacy on Thursday, April 12. The ceremony was held in the Kolligian Library on the University of California, Merced, campus. The prize, endowed by Dr. Sherrie Spendlove in honor of her parents, Alice and Clifford Spendlove, has been awarded to distinguished figures including President Jimmy Carter; Charles J. Ogletree Jr., director of the Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University; and Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson, founders of Childhelp. Continue reading →

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Commentary: A Million Person March on Washington

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Editor

By Edmond Y. Azadian

Judge Lisa Asadoorian is one of many prominent young judges in Michigan. Although she is not actively involved in any particular Armenian organization, her heart is in the right place. She cares about her own people, both in the diaspora and Armenia. Continue reading →

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Israeli Minister of Agriculture Speaks About Similarities Between Histories of Armenians and Jews

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A delegation, headed by Israeli Minister of Agriculture Orit Noked, visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, where the minister laid a wreath and paid tribute to the memory of the innocent victims. Noked, accompanied by Armenian Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan and Director of Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, also visited the museum-institute and familiarized herself with the exhibits. Continue reading →

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NBC Correspondent Shamlian to Receive Award at Mirror-Spectator Banquet

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

By Alin Gregorian

Mirror-Spectator Staff

HOUSTON, Texas — As Armenians, we all have been guilty of name-checking fellow Armenians in the media. Sitting high on that list is the name of Janet Shamlian, an NBC News national correspondent. Shamlian can be seen on any number of NBC programs, from the “Nightly News with Brian Williams,” to the “Today Show,” “Dateline” and news programs on MSNBC and CNBC. Continue reading →

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Armenian Books on Display in Harvard’s Lamont Library

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

An original edition of Franz Werfel’s Forty Days of Musa Dagh and an autographed copy of a William Saroyan novel. MARK MCKERTICH PHOTO

By Daphne Abeel

Special to the Mirror-Spectator

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell expressed justifiable satisfaction as he oversaw the final details of an exhibit of Armenian books that opened at Harvard University’s Lamont Library on Monday, April 9. Continue reading →

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Godine Publishes New, Complete Translation of Werfel’s Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

By Daphne Abeel

Special to the Mirror-Spectator

BOSTON — The publication on April 24 of a new, expanded and complete translation of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel demands recognition as a major literary and cultural event. It is an historic irony, given the dialectic between the Holocaust and the Genocide, that it fell to an Austrian Jew, Werfel, to write the iconic novel of the Armenian Genocide — many of those Armenian writers and intellectuals who might have penned it having been slaughtered on April 24,1915. Continue reading →

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Commentary: The Skeletons Are Dancing…

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

By Edmond Y. Azadian

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night agitated by a nightmare where I see a million-and-a-half skeletons dancing restlessly and seeking a peaceful place to rest. An entire nation was doomed to extermination and believed to have been buried in 1915. But the skeletons are still dancing and they are still seek- ing closure for their brutal deaths. Continue reading →

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Armenian Studies Program Banquet Celebrates 35th Anniversary

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Editor

FRESNO — The Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, held its gala 24th anniversary banquet, on Sunday, March 11, in the banquet hall of the Fort Washington Golf and Country Club. Continue reading →

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