Armenian International Magazine (AIM) February 2000, Volume 11, No. 2, pp. 54-56
Medieval Lobbyists
AUB Professor Explores Armenian-Moslem Relations in the Middle East
By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
The political and cultural history of the Armenians in the Near East is one of the least explored areas within traditional Armenian Studies. But Seta Dadoyan, Professor of Cultural Studies, Philosophy and Art at the American University of Beirut (AUB), has created a new interest in the subject — with a particular focus on its contemporary significance.
Armenian International Magazine (AIM) February 2000, Volume 11, No. 2
FOCUS OF THE MONTH
Jubilee in the Holy Land Pilgrimage of the Century Includes Top Government, Religious Leaders
By HRATCH TCHILINGIRIAN
early 1000 Armenians from around the world gathered in the Holy Land during the week of January 17-24 to celebrate the bi-millennial jubilee of Christ’s Nativity in Bethlehem. The celebrations were headed by the top leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church with the participation of Armenian President Robert Kocharian, who led a 30-member state delegation to Palestine and Israel for the occasion.
... at Haigazian.
“We attract the middle-class which is economically hit the hardest,” Mekhjian continues. “We’re into the second semester this year and have some 300 students who have not paid their full ...
... of over two dozen churches and congregations in seven countries in the MiddleEast and one church in Australia, as the origin of the Sydney church is traced back to Lebanon and Syria. ::/introtext:: ...
Armenian International Magazine AIM Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 52-53
The Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar
Providing a brighter future
Hratch Tchilingirian
Ara (not his real name) was four years old when a social worker brought him to the Armenian Evangelical boarding school in Anjar, the Armenian village in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. The school was already in session and the principal insisted that Ara should come at the beginning of the following year. But the social worker could not take Ara back. “You wouldn’t send him away if I told you where this child comes from,” pleaded the desperate social worker. Ara was very quiet and looked disturbed, says Rev. Nersess Balabanian, 40, who is in charge of the school. “The child’s father is a drug addict, his mother is a prostitute and he lives in a tiny room with two other little siblings,” explains Balabanian, “we couldn’t possibly return this child to that place.” They took him in.
... between our ‘Armenian’ and ‘Evangelical’ identity was more emphasized in the MiddleEast by the Apostolics,” says Zaven Khanjian, a Southern California real estate broker who is active within and ...
... its better days, considered the “Paris of the MiddleEast,” Lebanon attracted thousands of tourists from around the world. The Mediterranean coastline spreading north to south on the country’s east and ...
Armenian International Magazine (AIM) December 1999 Volume 10, No. 12, pp. 42-45
The Historical Present Two Scholars See the Present in the Annals of Ancient Times
By Hratch Tchilingirian
Putting together the dismembered body parts of gods — discarded in museum warehouses around the world — is not an easy job. But for archeologist and Egyptologist Hourig Sourouzian, 51, it is a professional passion. Painstakingly searching, identifying and matching pieces of heads, torsoes and legs of ancient statues has made Sourouzian one of the most sought-after experts of Egyptian art.
... in Europe, the MiddleEast, the US, South America and Armenia. The new leader will be known as Patriarch Nerses-Bedros XIX. ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::Armenian International Magazine (AIM) November 1999, ...
... new Catholicos of All Armenians a new impetus will be given to the negotiations process which stopped in the middle of this year.
In 2001, the Armenians Church will be celebrating its 1700th anniversary ...
... car in the middle of the street and get away with it. ::/introtext:: ::fulltext::Armenian International Magazine (AIM), October 1999, Volume 10, Number 10, pp. 52-53
Big Player Joe Baroutjian Reaches ...
Armenian International Magazine (AIM), Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, pp. 48-51
Back In Karabakh Diocese of Artsakh Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Re-establishment
By Hratch Tchilingirian
The Diocese of Artsakh celebrates the 10th anniversary of its re-establishment in Mountainous Karabakh. Under the most trying circumstances, the Diocese was officially reopened in the spring of 1989 with a special encyclical by Catholicos Vazgen I of All Armenians, and with the appointment of Bishop Barkev Martirossian as Primate. (He became an Archbishop in June 1999).
... accordingly. The World Council of Churches, the MiddleEast Council of Churches, the Vatican and other European churches have expressed readiness to provide financial aid.
Meanwhile, Armenian churches ...
Armenian International Magazine Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, p. 10
[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian]
Two Different Islands Cooperation among state officials, policy makers and businesses benefits all
In the last few years, Great Britain, a huge and important island in Europe, has gone through a process of reassessing its foreign policy in the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Armenia in particular.
Armenian International Magazine Volume 10, Number 10, October 1999, p. 11
[Editorial by Hratch Tchilingirian]
Electing A Holy Father Will the new Catholicos heal, build and lead the Church into the next century?
At the end of October over 450 delegates from around the world, elected by their respective communities, will convene the National Ecclesiastical Assembly (NEA), the Armenian Church’s highest body of authority, to elect a new Catholicos of All Armenians.
... Cyprus. Today, Avedissian is one of the few artists in Egypt, or in the MiddleEast, who redefine “Egyptian,” “Arabic,” or “Eastern” art. Rose Issa, who was curator of Avedissian’s 1995 exhibit at the ...
... makes the UAE different and exceptional is that only 10-15 percent of the two million population are natives or UAE citizens. The rest are foreigners and migrant workers from the MiddleEast, Europe, India, ...