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1. New Tools and Strategies for the Future of Western Armenian: Colloquium Explores New Tools and Strategies for the Future of Western Armenian

Massis Post, 9 March 2026

BURBANK (March 3, 2026) — A colloquium examining the future of Western Armenian and innovative approaches to language education brought together scholars, teachers, educators, and community leaders for a discussion on language vitality, pedagogy, and institutional collaboration. ...Moderator Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian, Director of Institutional Innovation at the Western Diocese...
Date:
2026-03-10
2. Syria’s forgotten Armenian community: Between Political Uncertainty and Military Threats: Syria’s Forgotten Armenian Community

Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian

Armenian Weekly, 26 January 2026 MassisPost, 26 January 2026 Aravot 26 January 2026

Syria today remains a politically and militarily fragmented country, defined not only by the legacy of a devastating civil war, but also by unresolved tensions between the country’s central authorities and the Kurdish forces operating in the northern and northeastern regions. Periodic clashes, shifting alliances, and contested systems of governance continue to generate instability and uncertainty, particularly for minorities caught between competing centers of
Date:
2026-01-27
3. Transformation Rooted in Legacy: ... author and scholar, his work and publications on the Armenian Church, identity, culture, the Armenian diaspora, and Christian communities in the Middle East have been recognized in both academic and policy ...
4. Language: The Condition of Mrs. Arev Mudian: ... first camp consists of the purists, the self-styled soldiers, warriors, and language police of Western Armenian — mostly, intellectuals of Middle Eastern origin. They see it as their sacred mission to ...
5. Hratch Tchilingirian (short biography): ... is the author of numerous studies and publications and has lectured internationally, in recent years drawing attention to the plight of minorities and Christian communities in the Middle East, especially ...
6. The Last Liturgy: Komitas’s Sacred Harmony Before the Silence, the Last Liturgy

Hratch Tchilingirian | 24 April 2025

During the chaos of World War I in Constantinople, Komitas Vardapet began composing a version of the Armenian Divine Liturgy (Badarak) for a male choir. Due to military exemptions for some educators and church servants, including a few from the Armenian Church in Galata (Istanbul neighborhood), Komitas gathered a group of about 25–30 young men and worked intensely—sometimes day and night—to train them and compose the choral arrangements, carefully crafting each voice part as its own unique melody....
Date:
2025-04-26
7. Religious Pluralism in the Modern Middle East: Paper: "Minority within Minorities: Armenian communities in the Middle East between imposed realities and uncertain future", CME International Workshop, Athens, Greece, 21 October 2022. Christianity and Religious Pluralism in the Modern Middle East: International Politics and Religion at the turn of the 20th and 21st century, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
Hratch_Tchilingirian_Athens_conf_agenda_cme_workshop_2022.pdf
Date:
2025-02-05
8. Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Appointed Director of Institutional Innovation: ... has published extensively on issues of identity, culture, and religion, as well as the plight of Christian communities and minorities in the Middle East. His work has earned recognition in both academic ...
9. Ethnic Cleansing: Does International Law Still Matter?: ... Again’ is again, and again, and again… We are gathered because crimes against humanity and human rights abuses are being committed before our very eyes from the Middle East to the Caucasus, to Eastern ...
10. Արցախահայութեան օժանդակութիւնը կրկին օրակարգի վրայ կը դնէ Սփիւռքի կառոյցներու խնդիրը: ... in the Middle East: Losing the Past in the Future?” in From Pluralism to Extinction?: Perspectives and Challenges for Christians in the Middle East (ed. Sotiris Roussos), London: Transnational Press, 2023 ...
11. The Purple East: A Series Of Sonnets On England's Desertion of Armenia (1896).: The Purple East: A Series Of Sonnets On England's Desertion of Armenia (1896) or this edition.

Sir William Watson (1858 –1935) a prolific English poet of the 1890s, popular in his time and famous for the controversial political content of his verse. He received a knighthood in 1917.

Watson_1896_The_Purple_East_A_Series_of_Sonnets_on_Englands_Desertion_of_Armenia.pdf
Date:
2023-09-01
12. The Challenge of Secularism in the Middle East: "The Challenge of Secularism in the Middle East"

Address of His Holiness Karekin II [Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia] to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, 19 January 1994, Los Angeles.

(Transcription provided by the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, Antelias-Lebanon)

Date:
2023-08-15
13. Հայկական «փափուկ ուժը» սփիւռքի մէջ: ... De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, եւ “Armenian Communities in the Middle East: Losing the Past in the Future?” in From Pluralism to Extinction?: Perspectives and Challenges for Christians in the Middle ...
14. Armenian Communities in the Middle East: Losing the Past in the Future?: Hratch Tchilingirian (2023) “Armenian Communities in the Middle East: Losing the Past in the Future?” in Sotiris Roussos (ed.), From Pluralism to Extinction?: Perspectives and Challenges for Christians in the Middle East. London: Transnational Press, 13-44.

[or read on Google books]

[amazon.com]

Tchilingirian_2023_Armenians_in_the_Middle_East_Losing_the_Past_in_the_Future.pdf
Date:
2023-07-19
15. Minority within Minorities: ... Lecture: "Minority within Minorities: The Armenian communities in the Middle East". Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, 19 September 2022. ::/introtext:: ::fulltext:: ՀՀ ԳԱԱ ...
16. New hope for Turkey-Armenia to heal old wounds: ... with Armenia.” This interest is reciprocated by Turkey, which has long been trying to establish its “Middle Corridor” initiative – a road and rail network through the largely ethnic Turkic states of ...
17. Why It Matters: Why It Matters: Armenia defiant against Turkey, Azerbaijan despite shrinking borders

By Peter Aitken | Fox News November 15, 2021

... "I think we’re back to square one in the sense that what started as a conflict between self-determination of the Karabakh Armenians and the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan…30 years later, this conflict has not been resolved, even despite the war, even despite Azerbaijan saying there is no longer Karabakh conflict," Hratch Tchilingirian, a scholar and activist, told Fox News...
Date:
2021-11-20
18. Արդեօք հայերը կրնա՞ն համաշխարհային ազգ մնալ՝ սնանկ հայրենիքով: Hratch Tchilingirian, "Could Armenians remain a global nation with a broken homeland?"

Արդեօք հայերը կրնա՞ն համաշխարհային ազգ մնալ՝ սնանկ հայրենիքով

Հրաչ Չիլինկիրեան, Օքսֆորդի համալասարան / University of Oxford

EVN Report, September 16, 2017 (EVN Report-ի մէջ հրատարակուած անգլերէն բանագրին հայերէն տարբերակը)

Վերջին տարիներուն, «համաշխարհային հայերու» մասին նոր խօսոյթ մը սկսած է յաճախ ընդգրկուիլ յետեղեռնեան հայկական ինքնութիւն ձեւաւորելու ճիգի մը կողմէ՝ Սփիւռքի ու Հայաստանի մէջ։ Այս նոր ինքնութեան բնորդի մշակները կը թուին խրախուսել «վերապրողի մտայնութենէ»ն անցում մը դէպի կեանքի ու յաջողութեան
Հրաչ_Չիլինկիրեան_2017_Արդեօք_հայերը_կրնան_համաշխարհային_ազգ_մնալ.pdf
Date:
2021-06-07
19. Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan: Biden drops a genocide bomb on Erdogan

Biden's curiously timed statement on WWI atrocity against Ottoman Armenians drives US-Turkey relations to a new low

Asia Times, April 26, 2021,by Jonathan Gorvett

. . .“there was no additional strategic risk for the US in doing this,” Hratch Tchilingirian, from Oxford University’s Faculty of Oriental Studies, told Asia Times...
Date:
2021-04-27
20. Christians in the Middle East (with a focus on Lebanon): Lecture: Christians in the Middle East (with a focus on Lebanon), course on “Ethnic and Religious Minorities in MENA.”

States and Societies Faculty, Diplomatic Academy, FCO, 16 February 2021 and 9 March 2021.
Date:
2021-03-29