Current Issue

The Summer 2006 issue of Ararat quarterly is just off the press. It contains a balanced mix of articles, fiction, poetry and book reviews. The lead article, "A Concept for a Museum of the Armenian Genocide in Washington, DC," by Edgar Papazian describes, in detail, the author's proposal for its design. Other articles deal with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the issue of language within the Armenian Church, an Armenian in Sweden, a pilgrimage to Kutahya, Komitas's birthplace, and reflections of the 1890s Hamidian massacres in British and American popular culture. The fiction section consists of a chapter from Karabagh Force Six, an unpublished novel by Nishan Parlakian, while Vahan Teryan and Shahe Mankerian are featured in the poetry section. Competing this issue is a cartoon by Aret Gicir illustrating the worldwide dimension of Armenian existence.

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Contents

Bedross Der Matossian
An Interview with NKR President Arkady Ghoukasian

Artsvi Bakhchinyan
An Armenian Saga: Sireli Göta

Max Boudakian
The Armenian Adventures of Frank Merriwell, "All-American Boy"

Garin K. Hovannisian
Last Rites

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Back Issues

Vol. XLV No. 186 Spring 2006

This edition of Ararat seeks to understand Karabagh after the recent conflict that left tens of thousands dead and hundreds and thousands displaced. With Neery Melkonian as guest editor, diasporan Armenians join forces with local and Yerevan Armenians, as well as with non-Armenians, to explore Karabagh through analysis and through cultural creation in a thought-provoking array of articles, discussions, art, film, fiction and reviews. As Melkonian stresses: "Absent also are stereotypical renderings of Karabagh as the 'aggressor' or 'victor'...What you have instead are sober exercises of the imagination, an imperfect utopia for freedom(s) which serve as a sketch for weaving a new type of Karabagh rug. A rug that is presently forming the endless; at once utilitarian and abstract; drifting between the fictional and the factual; shifting the traveler's itinerant but nevertheless arriving to a place that separates and connects us simultaneously."

Vol. XLV No. 185 Winter 2006

This special issue of Ararat is dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. Naturally, all AGBU publications this year are devoting at least one issue to this anniversary, and ararat is not an exception.

Most Armenians are familiar with at least some of the AGBU's manifold educational, cultural, and humanitarian programs. There are over seventy-five AGBU districts and chapters, forty-eight community centers and offices, and fourteen Young Professional Groups worldwide. AGBU administers thirty-three day and Saturday schools; and supports a wide range of programs, including the American University of Armenia, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karabakh Repopulation Project, soup kitchens, children's centers, student scholarships, summer camps, athletics and scouts, internship programs, the performing arts, and fourteen publications in six languages. The scope of the activities and accomplishments of the AGBU is too great to allow for a comprehensive examination of its one hundred years in one issue. Instead, ararat presents here an assortment of articles on different themes, regions, and activities.

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